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Named objects for standards checking

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Named objects for standards checking

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- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter now in our AutoCAD Developing CAD Standards course, and what we're going to start looking at is using that AutoCAD drawing standards file, the DWS file. Now, when you look at the screen, you'll notice I'm back in the Autodesk knowledge network, the AKN, and I'm looking for, obviously, things that involve AutoCAD on the product listing there. Now, if I just scroll down a little bit, you can see that what I've searched for is CAD Standards this time. So I've done something here where I've put in About CAD Standards on the search up here on the top of the screen. Now, it applies, as you can see, to lots of different versions of AutoCAD, but I'm just going to scroll down, because what it tells you about is the DWS file and what it actually does. So if you read that top paragraph there, it says you can create a standards file to define common properties in order to maintain consistency. Remember what I said, boringly consistent? And that'll take…

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