You can see how quick and effective that is. With the chair there I just click, I just click. If I wanted to actually mirror that I'd have to go into Grip Editing, Mirror it, select the two points at the mirror line and so on. Now I can just click on the grip there, right-click and I can mirror it there if I want to about that grip, but it means I've got to go into Grip Editing. But, what about something like this? Look, we've got a unit here, if I click there it's got the one grip. Now obviously flipping a circular standard lamp is not going to make a lot of difference it's circular, so I would move that around like so and place it where I need it to go. Notice it's very different to this block here. Now those tools in that Block are built using parameters and actions that we'll cover further on in the course. So I can keep flipping away here and that chair goes back to its original position. If I click on this flip action, it flips the chair again in the opposing direction. I'll just pan down a little and click on that flip action and look, it flips the chair for me. Now if I click here that is actually a flip action on a Dynamic Block. If I just hit Escape there to deselect that lamp and select the chair, now you'll see some other tools available, not just the default insertion grip there. I'm moving this around as one object, so it's a lamp, it's a lamp block. If I click on that grip you can see it's a block. If I click on that block there, as you can see I hover over it, you can see it's all one object. Let's zoom in using the wheel on our mouse and I'm just going to pan a little there. Now we're going to look here at these blocks here. You'll notice in this drawing, Space Planner Blocks-METRIC, I've also provided Space Planner Blocks-IMPERIAL in the Work Files for those of you that use Imperial units as well. Now Part 1 of this Introduction is What is a dynamic block? Well, let's have a look at a standard AutoCAD block first. Dynamic Blocks, for example, came into being with AutoCAD 2006 so you should have a current version of AutoCAD that is AutoCAD 2006 and above to be able to utilize Dynamic Blocks. However, a lot of these exercises and applications will apply to previous versions of AutoCAD as well. That's because it is the most current version of AutoCAD. Now I'm going to be using for the duration of this course AutoCAD 2010. Welcome to Part 1 of the Introduction to the AutoCAD Dynamic Blocks and Tool Palettes course.
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