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Blockbusters: Unleashing the Power of Dynamic Blocks in AutoCAD®—Revealed!

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  • Event Year: Autodesk University 2008
  • Class ID: GD305-1P
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  • Primary Speaker: Matt Murphy
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  • Class Information
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  • PowerTrack: AutoCAD PowerTrack
  • Primary Track: AutoCAD
  • Primary Software: AutoCAD
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Class Audience

Production drafter, designers, engineers and CAD managers

Class Description

Discover the full potential of Dynamic Blocks in AutoCAD. In this session you'll learn how each parameter and action behaves and how these tools can be applied and implemented into your existing design processes. See more than 20 examples of how Dynamic Blocks can be assembled—from scratch—to enhance and automate your office's design processes. Also featured are methods to resolve the most common creation problems, and many little-known tips, including coding examples that demonstrate how to manipulate Dynamic Block settings.

Class Highlights


  • Parameters and Actions on new Blocks

  • Create Blocks with the Block Editor

  • Global edits on Dynamic Blocks

  • Creation of unique Blocks

  • Problem-solving techniques to correct common problems and pitfalls of Dynamic Blocks

  • Fields and LISP to automate Dynamic Block settings

View all 5 questions Questions & Answers

  • Reply Tuyen Diep asked...
    Hello Mr. Murphy, I think your presentation was wicked cool. Since coming back from the AU, I have tried to create a very basic dynamic block for my everyday use, without success: My goal is to create a dynamic block with attributes that will remain always horizontal to the UCS, no matter how I insert it on the drawing. I don't want to have to rotate the block after the insertion. I have searched every where without success. Thank you in advance for looking into this. Tuyen Diep Forest Electric NYC 07-21-2009 12:17PM

  • Reply david moore replied...
    @Diep: sorry comrade, this is not an answer. @murphy: doff my hat to you Mr Murphy - podcast legends beckon! and yep, i remember you showing this at AU (birmingham) and i've been scouring the interweb since - please show us! thanks - daveMoore 07-23-2009 11:32AM

  • Reply Russ Brossman asked...
    Matt, My apology, I missed the response. The session was very well presented! Thumbs up! Thank you. 07-14-2009 9:30PM

  • Reply Russ Brossman asked...
    Russ Brossman, ask your question here. 07-14-2009 9:27PM

  • Reply John Rushton asked...
    how do I watch it 02-26-2009 8:35AM

  • Reply JOE HILL replied...
    I HAVE FOUGHT WITH THIS PRESENTATION AND YES I HAVE PLAYED IT AND LEARNED THINGS. HOWEVER THE PLAYER AND I BELEAVE IT IS POWER POINT IS NOT WELL SUITED FOR SUCH A PRESENTATION. STILL PICUTRES ARE A VERY POOR CHOICE .. SHOULD HAVE BEEN CAMISTA OR FLASH OR SOME THING ON THAT NATURE. THIS SHOULD BE SEPERATED INTO A THREE GROUP SHOW. WITH CHAPTERS .. THE MATERIAL DISCUSSED WAS GREAT ..PRESENTATION METHOD DONT ASK.. I BEING A DIE HARD. I WENT THROUGH EVERY SLIDE..AND I TOOK NOTES OF WHAT WAS GOOD FOR MY NEEDS.. I WAS EXPECTING MUCH BETTER FROM THE MAKERS OF AUTOCAD!! IS THIS INDICATIVE OF MOST OF THE LESSONS ?. 10-15-2009 4:17PM

  • Reply Shawn Gleason asked...
    This is my first experience with the "Podcast", and I was wondering if you could actually view the Dynamic Block class rather than just listning to it? I am trying to put together a class of my own here and it would be great if we could actually see you going through the motions as you speak. I guess I'm not quite sure how this all works. It all looked like pretty simple stuff as you went through it at AU but when I try to put it all together three months later it seems a little more complex and a video would be very helpfull. I would appreciate your advise. Thank You! Shawn Gleason NorhtWestern Energy Butte, MT 59701 406-497-2469 02-04-2009 11:36AM

  • Reply Joseph Wurcher replied...
    Shawn: video/screencasts are avialble to AU attendees and subscription customers only. If you fall into either, please use the feeback button on this site. Someone on the AU team can look into your profile and help you get access. 02-26-2009 10:52AM

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