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AutoCAD allows you to bring drawings into your current drawing as drawing blocks. So what we're going to do now, we're going to look at bringing in a drawing into our current drawing. Now, you might think that sounds a bit strange, but think about it. If you've created a Title Block Drawing and you want to bring your Title Block into your current drawing quickly, what's the best way to do it? Have it ready and available to you on a tool palette. You can drag it, drop it and it's in your drawing straight away. Rather than having to try and find it in a Windows Explorer Folder somewhere perhaps on your network. So as I stated, these exercises are useful. Let's have a look now at getting your title block into your current drawing. I'm in the View Tab here and I'm going to open up Design Center. Design Center again being useful. I'm actually in a particular drawing folder here which is for our tool palettes setting up section of this particular course and you'll see there that there is a title block drawing there and you can see that was last saved by myself previously. That's actually a layout view. Now, it doesn't matter whether it's in layout or model because what you can do is you can bring it in as a block. So I click on Tool Palettes now here and what I'm going to do now is I'm going to create a new tool palette again. Again, repetitive but repetitive so that you remember how to do it. So it's a right click on the Title Bar of the Tool Palettes there, New Palette and I'm going to call this DWGs; Drawings. So there's my DWGs there. I can right click and move up and I can keep doing that until I get it to the top if I want to. There's no real need here because we're only moving one drawing. So all I do is I click once on 11TitleBlock there, left click and drag and that brings it across into our Tool Palette. I'll release the mouse button now and there's my 11TitleBlock drawing ready to go on my Tool Palette. So what I can do now is I can close Design Center and the one thing I do now before I drag and drop is I right click and go to Options, check my Insertion Scale because I know that that title block's in millimeters. So I need to make sure that the Source Content Units are in millimeters and the Target Drawing Units are in millimeters. I'll OK that now and what I'm going to do now is literally just select it here, left click and drag. That'll bring it into the drawing and I release my mouse button and it asks for an insertion point. Let's just go for naught comma naught; easy to remember. Press Enter and look; there is a block of my Title Block ready to go. So what I can do there is you can see that's gone to zero zero. You can see that's a title block and that's come from using a drawing. So I've brought a drawing from my Tool Palette into my current drawing; real easy when you think about it. Create all your title blocks that you need. This one, in this particular case, is an A3 so I wouldn't use the drawing name. What I would do there is I would right click, Properties and I'd probably change that to something along the lines of let's say A3 and then it's in a landscape position like so and I'll OK that and there it is. It's my A3 Landscape Title Block ready to go on a drawings tool palette. Easy when you think about it. Do the exercises. Learn how to do these things so they're second nature. It'll make you much, much more productive in your AutoCAD drafting role.