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We're now going to look at Managing our Macros. Now, we've created a lot of macros already and all of them exist in this particular drawing right now. Now, it may be that we need a bigger planter. Now, this particular planter was 500 by 500 in millimeters. I need a bigger one that's 750 by 750. Now, rather than recreate all of that and recreate another macro, what I can do is I can go into here, in to my Manage Action Macros in my Action Recorder Panel, which is the Manage Tab on the ribbon. I click here, Manage Action Macros, I select my Planter Macro and I copy it. It asks me for a new Macro name so this will be Planter but it will be Planter Large, like so. I then click on OK and I've now got a new macro there, Planter Large. Now, if I wanted to modify that, all that will allow me to do is modify the name so I'll just cancel that and close. Now, you notice I've got Options there. If I click on Options, that literally opens up the Options Dialog Box so that I can look at my Action Recorder Settings. So basically it shows me where I can save my action recording file locations and any additional action reading file locations. I don't need to do that in this case. I close the dialog box. Now, what I need to do to edit my particular macro for Planter Large is select it from the list, Planter Large, so it's the current macro here in the pull-down menu. If I now click here on the panel, there's the Planter Large. If I pin that open now, there's all the settings for my macro. So it says Planter Large, base point, polyline, user message. These are the bits that I need to edit here, the coordinates of the corners of my planter. So what I do is I select here, I then right click and I edit. So I can actually edit the coordinates. So I go in here and I want it all to be 750. So I delete the 500, put 750 in there and press Enter. I then right click on the next one down, edit, change the 500 there to 750 and press Enter. It's very easy to do and you're actually programming your macro here so you're doing very well. So we'll Edit here, change that to 750. So you're actually working on programming AutoCAD right now. I bet you never thought you'd be doing this. So I've just got to right click on this one here and edit the last one here, change that 500 there to a 750. So I now have a Planter Large Macro. So everything else there is fine. I don't need to change any of that at all. So what I'm going to do here now is I'm actually going to close that there. It's done. It's saved, OK? So if I've got Planter Large there, click on there, you'll see the 750's stayed there. I don't need to click on Save or anything; just press Enter after each edit. OK, now, I've got Planter Large there. So let's run Play. Now it asks me for a base point so I'll pick a point here, specify the start point of your planter. So I click on Close and I'll pick a point, say there. There's the outside edge. We'll now offset the planter wall, click on Close, planter wall thickness, click on Close and it prompts me for an offset distance. I'm going to say 75, select the planter so I just left click there and it offsets it for me. The playback of the action macro is complete. If I close that now and just zoom in a bit, I'll go to my Home Tab now. Let's do a little bit of measuring using the Measure Geometry. Click on here and Distance. If I measure that distance now from there to there, you can see that my planter is 750 in that direction. I'll do a distance this way from there to there. It's 750 in that direction and I'll do a distance from the corner up to there and it's got a 75 thick wall. So you can see there that I've updated that action macro to create a larger planter that is 750 by 750. So you can see, by managing your macros there I haven't had to recreate another macro. I just edited an existing one by managing the macros that I've got.