Define Block Attributes

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Define Block Attributes

 

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Define Block Attributes

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Concept

Procedure

Quick Reference

To create an attribute definition

1. Click Home tabBlock panelDefine Attributes. At the Command prompt, enter attdef.
2. In the Attribute Definition dialog box, set the attribute modes and enter tag information, location, and text options.
3. Click OK.

   After creating the attribute definition, you can select it as an object while creating a block definition. If the attribute definition is incorporated into a block, whenever you insert the block, you are prompted with the text string you specified for the attribute. Each subsequent instance of the block can have a different value specified for the attribute.

 Command entry: ATTDEF