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AutoCAD: Designing Dynamic Blocks

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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AutoCAD Courses Local Area Networks Courses

Course Description

Overview

Build intelligence into your AutoCAD drawings with dynamic blocks, and update the shape, size, position, orientation, and visibility of objects in blocks on the fly.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Working with Static Blocks
  • Defining and nesting blocks
  • Inserting and redefining blocks
2. Applying Geometric and Dimensional Constraints
  • Applying dimensional constraints within a block
  • Creating geometric constraints within a block
  • Adding tangent circles and constraining them to stay tangent
  • Defining a parameter referenced by dimensional constraints
3. Designing Dynamic Blocks
  • Adding alignment and base-point grips
  • Stretching the desk and phone incrementally
  • Controlling stretch with a reverse lookup of listed values
  • Building position and rotation controls into the armchair
  • Positioning and orienting the task chair with a polar grip
  • Adding position and flip grips to mirror chairs
  • Controlling the visibility of objects from a menu
  • Adding an attribute with a field value
  • Keeping items centered using the half-distance multiplier
  • Advanced topic: Variable-radius filleted corner
4. Accessing Blocks on a Local Area Network
  • Writing and inserting blocks to and from files
  • Using DesignCenter to access a drawing's block tables
  • Searching for blocks with the Content Manager
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Scott Onstott

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