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Adding position and flip grips to mirror chairs

Adding position and flip grips to mirror chairs

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Adding position and flip grips to mirror chairs

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- At this point we have grips on this arm chair and the task chair. But what about the other arm chair? At this point it's just frozen in position. Let's go ahead and edit the block reference by double clicking on it and clicking OK. Add a point parameter to the front edge of the right arm chair. Then click a point off to the side for the label. Go to the Actions tab and click Move. Select the new parameter. And then select the arm chair and the parameter itself. Press Enter. Test the block. And make sure that it works. So I can move these independently. And I can rotate the arm chair on the left. What if I wanted to rotate the arm chair on the right? Well I could go ahead and implement another rotate grip and rotate action. But to keep things more interesting I'm going to leave this one as it is and we will implement a flip behavior. So let's close the test block. Go to Parameters. And choose the Flip parameter. Specify a base point of reflection line. That's going to be a point…

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