Dynamic Blocks Showcase: Share Your Favorite Dynamic Blocks

[Victoria.Studley]

Dynamic Blocks Showcase: share your favorite dynamic blocks and show us how you made them!

As a follow up to our latest dynamic blocks webinar, we'll post our favorite dynamic blocks here with Screencasts to illustrate how we created them.

Please join the conversation: share your own blocks or get some inspiration from your fellow community members. Let us know how you save time in your designs by using dynamic blocks!

If you're interested in watching our Dynamic Blocks webinars, or signing up for future AutoCAD webinars, check out these links:

• Sign Up: If you'd like to sign up for future AutoCAD webinars, you can do so via this link.
• Webinar 1: Introduction to Dynamic Blocks in AutoCAD
• Webinar 2: Dynamic Blocks Deep Dive in AutoCAD 2018

[timothy_crouse]

Here is a panelboard front view used to create electrical elevations

[Anonymous]

AC Link Box that I and my colleagues use at work (Aeronautical Ground Lighting Diagrams for UK airports mainly), it has all the different setups that we need and when Combined with the Link Arrows/Cabling Works like a charm.

It is currently the second largest block in the Collection and was the Most annoying of the lot to do due to just learning some of the principles behind it and Deciding that I would use 1,2,3 for the lookup values instead of something a bit more meaning full.

Designed in AutoCAD 2014 and currently used in AutoCAD 2017.

[Anonymous]

AC Link Box that I and my colleagues use at work (Aeronautical Ground Lighting Diagrams for UK airports mainly), it has all the different setups that we need and when Combined with the Link Arrows/Cabling Works like a charm.

It is currently the second largest block in the Collection and was the Most annoying of the lot to do due to just learning some of the principles behind it and Deciding that I would use 1,2,3 for the lookup values instead of something a bit more meaning full.

Designed in AutoCAD 2014 and currently used in AutoCAD 2017.

[timothy_crouse]

The elbows are size selectable.

Due to set array increment property I decided to prove a scale gauge inside the straight FMC.  That way the user can

perform a scale ref operation to get what ever size conduit they need and still use a single array control.

[timothy_crouse]

Here is a set of dynamic conduit box connectors.

It is missing set screw type and Steel Compression type >> perhaps an update will be in this drawings future when I find time.

[timothy_crouse]

Here are a few tags I use in construction project drawing packages.

Hope they save folks some time,  they are setup to be auto linked into a sheet set or when used as a standard inserted block you can simply blow the line away in the attribute.

These are setup for a named plot style, to use with CTB would take a little experimenting.  If you use CTB and you want to test these blocks you will need to create a new drawing used the named plot style dwt as your system is most likely setup to create new drawing with a CTB plot configuration.  You will not have access to the STB file from inside a CTB based drawing (with going through extra steps)

-Tim C.

[vrod_2000]

I got tired of all of the Instrument Stanchion symbols, so made this one.

It has every kind (I think) of Instrument stanchion in it that I have ever used.

I made a screencast of it below.

https://autode.sk/2U413Ar

[vrod_2000]

Here is a screencast of an armoured level gauge/magnetic level gauge.

[Anonymous]

Here is a block I made for a sections. It can flip and rotate.

And Show Like section, Check this out.

[timothy_crouse]

Good stuff, woks good.

Have you considered adding a wipeout to it so it can be placed anywhere on the sheet?  You could add a wipeout ON/ OFF in your vis states.

-Tim C.

[neaton]

Instead of a wipeout, I recommend using a solid hatch color 255,255,255 which prints white. Some plotters, printers and pdf writers still print wipeouts as solid black fills. I don't see it too often, but often enough that I recommend not using them.

Nancy

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@timothy_crouse wrote:

Good stuff, woks good. 

Have you considered adding a wipeout to it so it can be placed anywhere on the sheet?  You could add a wipeout ON/ OFF in your vis states. 

-Tim C.

[Anonymous]

Thank you, Nancy! I still run across this issue as well, but never thought this fix.

[s.borello]

You can download DWG TRUEVIEW for free and down-save dwg files.  

[timothy_crouse]

Here are a few steel framing pieces ( unistrut ) channels and hardware some folks may find useful

As always, hope they save you some time.

-Tim C.

[timothy_crouse]

Here is an example of a set of dynamic concentric arcs.

Best Regards

Tim

[josue.garay85]

Here some cable tray blocks that I made last week.

[timothy_crouse]

Nice stuff!

[josue.garay85]

Thank you.

[josue.garay85]

I tried using a block properties table.

[timothy_crouse]

Here is a dynamic Rebar block.

It developed in imperial but inserts correctly into metric drawings as well.

It uses named plot style

To change the internal object colors:

Create a blank drawing

Rename the block

change layer info as required, merge coloring etc...

this way you can show new and existing rebar in the same drawing

Lineweights are set thin as I use this type of object in zoomed in details 

Best regards

-Tim