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We're again here in our office environment using our reusable content our blocks, our desks, our chairs, our computers and our phones. Now there are various ways and means of utilizing our reusable content. I've shown you Tool Palettes up till now what we're going to look at now is another feature in AutoCAD known as Design Center. Design Center is extremely useful because you can find blocks in other drawing, put them onto Tool Palettes and utilize them in different drawings. So we're going to open up our Tool palettes first and there is our Office Palette that we set up. Let's just move the Tool Palette over a little bit over here. Now on this Icon here on the Palettes Panel on the View Tab I have Design Center here, if I click on Design Center this will open up another palette. Now I'm going to move Design Center over this way and what I'm going to do is just resize it slightly just clicking and dragging like you do with any window in any Windows product and what we've got there you can see that I've got various folders that I can look at so you notice I've gone to find drawing there on my C drive on My Computer. I've got open drawings, this is the drawing that I've got open already, my Blocks Design Center Drawing, there it is there. I've got a history of any drawings I might have had open, so as you can see there I've gone to look in the AutoCAD 2008 sample folder and there's a Home Space Planet Drawing I've looked at recently. Now DC Online if you've got Internet access will actually allow you to go and find blocks from the Autodesk Block Storage facility called DC Online on the Internet. It takes a few seconds to load up as you can see, its loading up information there and as you can see now I can find information 2D Electrical Blocks, 2D Manufacturing Blocks and so on. I'm going to go back to my Open Drawings Tab, what I can do here is I can find specific objects in my drawing, my current drawing that I've got open. If I click on Blocks there you'll notice now look there's the blocks that are in my drawing and also on my palette here. So let's have a look at that in a slightly different way. Let's right click on the Title Bar and we'll go to New Palette and this time we'll call it Office 2 like so. So I've got another palette now, completely clear, what I can do now is the same process as if I was taking them from the drawing. I click on let's say my executive chair there, I Left Click now and I drag and I can copy that across from Design Center into the palette. Notice I can dot hat with the computer, left click and drag and I can also go into the palette. Now if I've got 300 blocks that's going to be a very mundane and boring task, possibly a suicidal task. What we're looking at here is ways of means to making our lives easier so that we are not bored to death by dragging and dropping blocks. What we need to do is we need to be productive, we need to be effective. Let's have a look at this in a slightly different way. What I'm going to do here is I'm actually going to click on the name of the drawing here in Design Center and right click over it. I can now just create a Tool Palette from the blocks. There's the name of the drawing, there's a new tab there 3 Blocks Design Center, 3 Blocks Design Center, 3 Blocks Design Center. But there's all the blocks straight off the drawing onto a new palette, no dragging and dropping required whatsoever. I can also now close Design Center, I start up a new drawing like so, go to Metric and what I can do now is I can drag and drop my chair, there's my chair. I can drag and drop let's say my desk; there's my desk and so on and so forth. So that palette is just as effective as one that I would have dragged and dropped all the blocks onto. Use Design Center a very useful tool, very effective and it will make you more productive, more importantly if you are a business it will make you more profitable.