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So here we are now in Exercise 2 for Visibility States in Dynamic Blocks in AutoCAD and what we're going to do now, we're going to create a dynamic block of our conference tables here so that when we have three visibility states for our conference table, we have a choice of a six-seater conference tables, an eight-seater conference table and a ten-seater conference table. So like before, we're going to go to our Block Editor here. You can see there's our three conference table blocks there. We want to create a dynamic block of our conference tables so let's be consistent. We'll put in Conference Table like so and then we'll put -and then D-y-n for Dynamic. Then we click on OK. So again now, what we've got to do is bring our blocks into this particular environment, our Block Editor environment. So we have to insert our blocks first of all so that's easy. We go to the Home Tab and Insert. I'm going to insert the ten-seater first. I'm going to bring that in specifying on screen like so for the insertion point and OKaying it. As I come in now, it asks me to specify an insertion point. I'm going to type in Naught comma Naught and press Enter. So it goes right on the UCS Icon there. Now what I'm going to do is bring the other two blocks in using that corner there. So it's Insert Block, I want the eight-seater now on top. Again, specify on screen. I'll use that point there, there's the eight-seater and again, Insert and I'll bring in the six-seater as well. And again, specify on screen for the insertion point and click there. So you can see now I've got, there's my six, there's my eight, there's my ten-seater conference table. So now go to the Parameters Tab here, Visibility Parameter. So where are we going to place that? I would suggest about there. Now we have to go back to the Block Editor, go to Visibility. We want Visibility States and we need to create three new visibility states. So I click on Rename and the first visibility state is going to be Conference Table. So I'll put C-o-n-f Table like so and then I'm going to put ten seats like so. Then I'll click on New. Then we're going to have conference table again and this time it'll be eight seats like so. I click on OK and then New again, same again, conference table again like so. Make sure that it's all consistent. Make sure you got a capital T for Table for example. Always make it look good. So then we'll go for six seats like so. So I've got my three visibility states there now. So I OK that, I go to back to Visibility here and I'm going to go from the ten-seater inwards so I select Ten-Seats, I switch on my Visibility Mode remember. So what I'll do now just to check, I'll click on Visible first and make this ten-seater visible and right click. Then I'll click on Visibility again. I want Invisible now on the eight-seater and also the six-seater. When I right click, they gray out; you can see that there. So I go Visibility again, I want the eight-seat visibility state now and same process. Visible first, so there's the eight-seater there, click on that, right click, make it visible. Same process only Invisible this time, click on Invisible and you want the ten-seater and the six-seater to be invisible like so. See? They gray out. Last but not least we do the six-seater so we go down here, select our Visibility States. I want six seats this time, click on Visibility again, Make Visible and I want the six-seater made visible. Right click to confirm. Click again, Make Invisible and you select the eight-seater and the ten-seater there like so. They gray out showing that they are invisible. So we've done our three visibility states. Again though, we go to Test Block like we can in AutoCAD 2010. If I click on the Block, Visibility States, that's the ten-seater, there's the eight-seater and there's the six seater. So they all work so I can close the Test Block Window. That'll take me back into the Block Editor. I'm going to save my block and then close the Block Editor here. That takes me back into the drawing. If I go to the Home Tab there, click on Insert, Conference Table Dynamic I want here, that one there, I'll specify the insertion point on the screen, drop it in there. When I select it now, as you can see, I've got ten seats or eight seats or, of course, six seats. As you can see, the dynamic block now works for all three of these blocks here; one, two and three; six-seater, eight-seaters and ten seater. They're all contained in the same block now, as you can see. So I must stress now that you must do these exercises. You can see that they're easy to do and they'll make you so much more productive in AutoCAD when you use dynamic blocks.