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Dynamic Blocks
The File Link Manager handles dynamic blocks the same way as other blocks
found in a DWG file. When linked to a scene, the naming for the incoming
dynamic block instances are based on the original dynamic block definition
in the form of Block: block_name where block_name is the actual name of the
dynamic block definition.
Dynamic block instances, even those that have been grip-edited, display certain
types of instance behavior such as material propagation, if the setting is
activated from the
Material Editor Options menu on page 5225 . Below is a table
showing instance behavior of dynamic blocks.
BehaviorProperty
Modifiers applied to one component
are applied to the same component in
Modifiers
other instances, but only when those
instances have the same grip property
values.
When material propagation is turned
on, materials are applied to all block
Materials
instances. When turned off, materials
are applied only to the current selec-
tion set.
NOTE If you use the Entity, Blocks as
Node Hierarchy Derive By setting for
drawings containing dynamic blocks,
materials may propagate to some
block instances and not to others.
Changes to node properties are not
propagated to block instances.
Node Prop-
erties
Transforms, like move, rotate and
scale, of one component will affect
Transforms
(on compo-
nents) that same component in other block
instance only when those instances
have the same grip property values.
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