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From the Vault

Originally published April 2003

Establish your drawing BASE

When using WBLOCK to save selected objects as a .dwg file, you have the opportunity to establish the base point by which that drawing will be "held" when inserting it into another drawing. When you insert a drawing file that was not created using Wblock, however, AutoCAD presumes the base point for that inserted file to be 0,0 by default. To specify a point other than 0,0 as the drawing's base point without using Wblock, type BASE at the Command line and pick a point to be used as the base point for the drawing when it's inserted.

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