AutoCAD Tips Newsletter: Creating and moving block attributes

Dear Subscriber, Please forward this newsletter to colleagues who want to learn more about AutoCAD. If you received this newsletter from a colleague, sign up for your own copy at EllenFinkelstein.com. Dimensions are essential for almost all drawings, so this week I'm offering you a new and an older tip to help you get the perfect dimension. In this issue:: 1. Move block attributes in an AutoCAD drawing 2. Tutorial: Create attributes 1. Move block attributes in an AutoCAD drawing You can easily move block attributes so that they fit better in your AutoCAD drawing by grip-editing them. Just follow these steps... Find out more... 2. Tutorial: Create attributes This is my original tutorial on creating attributes, written quite a while ago. If you aren't using attributes, you should investigate them; they can save you a lot of time, make your drawing more intelligent, and reduce typing errors. Do the tutorial! The most comprehensive book on AutoCAD AutoCAD 2012 & AutoCAD LT 2012 Bible Order the latest edition of my best-selling book, which I believe to be the most comprehensive book available on AutoCAD. It comes with a DVD full of drawings that you'll use for the numerous exercises. It's a combination of a resource book (so you can look up any topic you need to know about) and tutorial (so you can learn AutoCAD step-by-step). Have you bought a copy? Click Reply and let me know what you think! I'd appreciate it! Check it out! * * * * * New edition! Learn all about blocks in this thorough 121-page e-book, including the basics, dynamic blocks, attributes, annotative blocks, extracting data, and more! Includes drawings for numerous exercises. Only $14.95! Click here to purchase. (Full disclosure: I get 30%.) Click ad for more info on how you can save money with online purchases! More You can find the latest tips in my AutoCAD Tips Blog. For more tips, go to www.ellenfinkelstein.com/AutoCAD_tips.html. For my AutoCAD books and other items, go to my e-store. You can sponsor this newsletter, or place an ad in it. Reach 7,000 committed AutoCAD users. Contact me. If you want to reprint or reuse any of the content in my newsletters or on my site for your own newsletter, contact me. Happy designing and drawing, Ellen Finkelstein EllenFinkelstein.com Check out my Amazon page! Follow me on Twitter! (www.twitter.com/EFinkelstein) Use the links below to manage your subscription: Change your e-mail address; this opens a new e-mail message. Please give me both your old and new e-mail addresses. To subscribe, go to www.ellenfinkelstein.com/acad_submit.html. ©2012 Ellen Finkelstein, Inc. | 2010 Coral Lane, Fairfield, IA 52556

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