From the course: AutoCAD: Advanced Dynamic Blocks
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Dynamic blocks - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Advanced Dynamic Blocks
Dynamic blocks
- [Instructor] We're staying in our Blocks.dwg file and you'll notice I've left it in exactly the same state as it was at the end of the last video, where we were looking at the standard block and manipulating the standard block. So just pan across slightly, now, to the block on the right. This door block, here. This is a dynamic block. Now, you can normally tell a dynamic block when you select it because you'll see extra parameters available. In this particular case, it looks like the standard block. You've selected it, it's all one object and it's got its insertion point grip right here. But you will notice you've got this little arrow, here. Now that arrow is a flip action. Now, I've mentioned that in previous videos about this particular block, but we're going to look at the flip action now and see what benefits it gives us. Now, the first one is if you select the block and you click on the flip action, it will flip the block in one click. Now, look at the standard block, over on…
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