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Adding the flip parameter and flip action

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Adding the flip parameter and flip action

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our Valve-DYNAMIC1.dwg file, and I've left the drawing in the block editor based on what we did previously in the previous video, where we added the rotation parameter and the rotation action for the little red diverter plate in the middle of the dynamic block. What we're going to do now is add a flip parameter and a flip action to the block, so that we can obviously flip the entire valve assembly from one side to the other. So we need to zoom out a little bit now so that we can see all of the valve assembly like so. And I'm going to go to the block Authoring palette again and go to the Parameters panel here. And as you can see, I just click on the Parameters tab. There's the Parameters panel with all my parameters available. Now, we've done a flip action before in previous chapters in the course, and it's very simple to do, but the nice thing is you can apply them anywhere. The lovely thing about dynamic blocks is you can have any combination of…

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