From the course: AutoCAD: Advanced Dynamic Blocks
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Adding alignment parameters - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Advanced Dynamic Blocks
Adding alignment parameters
- [Instructor] We're staying in our Door-DYNAMIC1.dwg file, and I've left the drawing in the block editor. So I haven't changed it from the last video. We're still in the block editor. We're still adding parameters to this Door Dynamic Block that we've created. In the last video, we added those two flip parameters: flip vertical, flip horizontal. We're now going to add an alignment parameter. Now these don't actually need an action applied to them because what you're doing is you're adding a parameter to say to AutoCAD, when I place this block, align it with something. And the action is actually the placing of the block. So you don't need to worry about an action. You're just telling AutoCAD that you want to align the block when you place it. So alignment, again, is on the parameters tab here. There's alignment, and can you see there? There's a little arrow at the end of that grip. And what that does is you can see it's aligning with that horizontal line there. So I click on alignment…
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