Working with groups
Working with blocks has a lot of great benefits. For instance, blocks can be resized while inserting, you can make modify blocks and all of its references are automatically modified in the drawing, you can use blocks from other drawings, and more. But we might not always need these features, and for those situations, you can use groups, which in a way work like blocks but with limited functionality:
Figure 4.63: A sample drawing to be used for the groups feature
To understand groups, I will use the preceding drawing. Here, we have a set of cubicles, with the first cubicle containing office accessories such as a table, computer, phone, and more. We will create our first group using these objects.
Creating groups
Here, we will start the example by creating a simple group comprising objects from our drawing, as shown in Figure 4.63:
- To create a group, click on the Group icon in the Groups panel of the Home tab, as shown in the...