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Creating a simple dynamic block

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Creating a simple dynamic block

- [Narrator] We're staying on the theme of reusing content in our AutoCAD drawings but we've got a different drawing for you to use this time. It's called dynamic block.dwg, and you'll notice on the screen we've got a very simple representation of a door. You'll also notice that the current drafting layer is door and what we're going to do is create a very, very simple dynamic block. Now dynamic blocks differ from your regular AutoCAD blocks. You can apply actions to your actual blocks themselves. So, for example, when you bring this block into the drawing as a door you will normally as a normal block have to rotate it, scale it, copy it, and so on. What you can do is add parameters and actions to a dynamic block that save you having to do that. So for example this door might open on the right hand side or the left hand side or the right hand side. You can apply something like a flip action to the door itself so that when you bring the dynamic block in you can just apply that flip…

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