One of the great advantages of Design Center is that you can insert any named object, such as a block, layer, text style, or dimension style, from one drawing to other using Design Center. To do this, use a drawing that contains a custom dimension style, a custom layer, and a block. In the following example, we will learn to insert named objects from one drawing to another and for this example, I am using a drawing which has all these named objects.

1. Open the Design Center palette using ADC command.
2. Click the folder icon on the top of the heads-up bar of Design Center, as shown in Figure 8.39, locate the drawing that contains these named objects, select it, and click the Open button:

3. The drawing will open in Design Center, and you will see a list of named objects in the panel, as shown in Figure 8.40:

4. Double-click the Layers option, and then you will see list of all the layers of the selected drawing.
5. Drag and drop the layer you want to insert from this drawing to the current one and the layer will be added to our drawing.
6. Similarly, click the back button and then open other named objects, such as dimension style, and then in a similar way drag and drop the dimension style you want to insert in the current drawing, and it will be added.
7. The blocks can also be added in a similar way from any selected drawing.

So, now you know that Design Center is not only used for adding library blocks, but it is also useful when you want to extract named objects from other drawings. Just like Design Center, there is also another tool in AutoCAD that has a library of blocks, and this tool is called the tool palette. This tool also has a unique set of features, which we will discuss in the next section.