Overview
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Build intelligence into your AutoCAD drawings with dynamic blocks, and update the shape, size, position, orientation, and visibility of objects in blocks on the fly.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Defining and nesting blocks
- Inserting and redefining blocks
- Applying dimensional constraints within a block
- Creating geometric constraints within a block
- Adding tangent circles and constraining them to stay tangent
- Defining a parameter referenced by dimensional constraints
- Adding alignment and base-point grips
- Stretching the desk and phone incrementally
- Controlling stretch with a reverse lookup of listed values
- Building position and rotation controls into the armchair
- Positioning and orienting the task chair with a polar grip
- Adding position and flip grips to mirror chairs
- Controlling the visibility of objects from a menu
- Adding an attribute with a field value
- Keeping items centered using the half-distance multiplier
- Advanced topic: Variable-radius filleted corner
- Writing and inserting blocks to and from files
- Using DesignCenter to access a drawing's block tables
- Searching for blocks with the Content Manager
- Next steps
