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Placing Door and Window Symbols in AutoCAD: A Step-by-Step Guide

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This AutoCAD tutorial walks through placing door and window symbols in autocad, covering essential tools and techniques for your projects.

Let's bring in our Door and Window Symbols. I'll go I, Enter to open up my Blocks one more time.

I'll just move this slightly over. There we go. And remember, our Door and Window Symbols were drawn as Paper Space objects.

This means that they are quite small, and we want to bring them in at an increased scale. That scale is our anticipated plot scale, which is a scale factor of 48. So I'll come down to my options, change my Uniform Scale to 48, and I have multiple objects.

So I want to add Repeat Placement. Let's also turn on Object Tracking for placing our Window Symbols. Now let's start with a Door Symbol, and referencing the handout, I'll simply click to place it in each door—placing it inside the door swing and adding the letters.

This is A, these two are B and B, this one is C, and this one is D. Hit Escape when you're done. And remember, you can always update this text, which is an Attribute, by double-clicking to open the Enhanced Attribute Editor, or by holding Control and double-clicking on an Attribute, you can enter a simple Text Editor. Now let's add our Window Symbols.

I'll scroll down and find the Window Symbol, and I'll come up here, use my Object Tracking to highlight the Midpoint, drag to the left, and I'll click to place it here. This is one, okay. And because I have the Repeat Placement checkbox on, I can highlight this Midpoint, track to the right, and click.

This is also one. I'll do the same here. Click to place, one, Enter.

And this window—drag down, click to place—two, Enter. Hit Escape when you're done, Zoom Extents, and Control+S to save. In the next video, we will add the tile hatch in the bathroom.