Add flexibility and intelligence in AutoCAD 2006 with dynamic blocks

摘要

Blocks are everywhere in the AutoCAD world. They allow you to avoid repeating the same drawing tasks and reduce drawing size. However, they can be too much of a good thing. After a while, you can collect hundreds of blocks, many that may be very similar to each other. An architect might have several different sizes of doors or windows, an engineer various sizes of the same part, and a facilities manager many variations of a desk set. Not only is keeping track of all the blocks confusing, but editing their components can be difficult. With regular blocks, to edit a component, you need to explode the block and then redefine it. In this article, we'll explain how the new dynamic blocks feature of AutoCAD 2006 helps streamline the entire process of storing and editing blocks.