CadSHARE – Insert Blocks

By David Crowther

Did You Know?

Using CadSHARE you can easily search for and Insert Drawing Blocks into any AutoCAD Drawing in your SharePoint repository.

How?

CadSHARE is a plugin tool for AutoCAD and allows you to store, retrieve, update and manage all your organisations AutoCAD Drawing Files in your SharePoint repository.

To insert a Drawing Block into an AutoCAD Drawing file within your SharePoint instance, choose the CadSHARE Open tool.

The Open window will appear, listing the current AutoCAD Drawing files in each folder of your SharePoint instance.

Select a DWG and open it into AutoCAD.

From the CadSHARE ribbon choose the Insert Block tool.

The select .dwg to insert window will now appear.

Navigate to the folder in your SharePoint instance that contains the file to Insert. Left click on the name of the Drawing file in the list and choose > Select.

Having chosen the Select button the AttachDialog window will open which now allows you to choose how to insert the chosen Block into your current Drawing.

Having selected your insert parameters choose OK, and then in your Drawing file left click to define the insertion point for the inserted Block, and the chosen Drawing file is then inserted into your current Drawing.

The CadSHARE plugin therefore provides your users with a simple way to Insert Drawing Blocks into their AutoCAD Drawing Files stored within SharePoint.