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Dynamic blocks practice - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD for Mac 2019 Essential Training
Dynamic blocks practice
- [Instructor] Now that we've taken a look at some of the parameters and actions, let's put them together and make a nice, useful dynamic block. Here, we have a conference room table. The table is 72 inches long, and 36 inches wide, and, as you can see, it seats eight. Our client wants to use this table in their new office building, so we need to block it, as it's going to be used a lot. Also, we found out from the manufacturer, they're adding three new versions of the table. In addition to the standard 72 inch version, they're going to make a smaller 48 inch version, as well as a massive 96, and even larger, 120 inch table, that seats 12 people. Also, there will be an optional power station in the center of the table, for people to plug in laptops and such. This is going to be optional, so not every table will have the power station. We could create four new blocks for the four different sizes, and then an additional four blocks for the optional power station, but using dynamic…
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Hatch basics3m 13s
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Using gradients1m 49s
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Groups1m 56s
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Blocks1m 35s
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Creating blocks2m 39s
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Updating blocks3m 37s
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Dynamic blocks2m 7s
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Dynamic blocks actions and parameters6m 26s
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Dynamic blocks visibility parameter5m 34s
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Dynamic blocks practice5m 40s
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External references4m 3s
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Binding external references2m 53s
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Underlaying images4m 16s
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Underlaying PDFs4m 17s
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