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Adding visibility states - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Advanced Dynamic Blocks
Adding visibility states
- We're staying in the block editor in our Wall Sink Dynamic1.dwg file. In our previous video, we set up the base point parameter and the visibility parameter called Wall Sink. Now, you can see that we've got our little yellow exclamation mark there, so it's basically telling us that that wallsink visibility parameter needs something else adding to it. Now normally, most parameters require an action. In this particular case, we need to apply our visibility states. So you'll notice in the parameters tab, on the Block altering palette, Visibility has a dropdown, that's what the triangle is. Lookup is also a little triangle. We've set a visibility parameter, we now need to set the visibility state. So you'll notice, up in the Block Editor tab on the ribbon, the visibility panel is now highlighted and ready to use. So I'm going to click on Visibility States here, and this will bring up our Visibility States dialog box. Now it gives you a default visibility state of visibility state zero…
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