From the course: AutoCAD Customization for CAD Managers
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Parameters - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Customization for CAD Managers
Parameters
- [Instructor] To create a dynamic block, we need to take advantage of Block Editor. Well, we can get to the Block Editor from the Insert ribbon, Block Definition, Block Editor, or you can pick on any block that is already inserted into the drawing. Right-click and you can choose Block Editor from there. Within Block Editor, Block Editor works like a new drawing. But it has it's own ribbon and provides you a separate palette. This palette is called the block authoring palette, and we're going to spend some time in this module discussing the parameters. To create a dynamic block, we have to provide information about what properties will be impacted. What are we changing dynamically? Are we changing a scale, or stretch, or location, linear location, or polar location of an object? Are we rotating objects? Are we choosing to flip objects, such as the mirror command? So we choose the parameter. So in this case, what we're going to do, in this exercise we are going to create a block that…
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