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Constrain Objects Geometrically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Overview of Geometric Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Apply or Remove Geometric Constraints . . . . . . . . . . 285
Display and Verify Geometric Constraints . . . . . . . . . 289
Modify Objects with Geometric Constraints Applied . . . . 291
Infer Geometric Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Constrain Distances and Angles between Objects . . . . . . . . . 294
Overview of Dimensional Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Apply Dimensional Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Control the Display of Dimensional Constraints . . . . . . 298
Modify Objects with Dimensional Constraints
Applied
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Constrain a Design with Formulas and Equations . . . . . . . . 301
Overview of Formulas and Equations . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Control Geometry with Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Chapter 7
Define and Reference Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Work with Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Overview of Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Insert Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Work with Dynamic Blocks in Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Overview of Dynamic Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Work With Action Parameters in Blocks . . . . . . . . . . 313
Work With Constraint Parameters in Blocks . . . . . . . . 315
Remove Block Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Create and Modify Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Define Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Create Blocks Within a Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Create Drawing Files for Use as Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Control the Color and Linetype Properties in Blocks . . . . 319
Nest Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Create Block Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Attach Data to Blocks (Block Attributes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Overview of Block Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Define Block Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Extract Data from Block Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Extract Block Attribute Data (Advanced) . . . . . . . . . . 328
Modify Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Modify a Block Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Modify the Data in Block Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Modify a Block Attribute Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Disassemble a Block Reference (Explode) . . . . . . . . . . 336
Chapter 8
Work with 3D Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Create 3D Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
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