Well Shaan Hurley posted this on his BLOG. "Undisputed KING of Dynamic Blocks". Pretty funny. http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/2005/04/betablocker_win.html
I just found out the Dynamic blocks I made for 2006 won 1st place in 2 out of the 3 categories hosted by the Autodesk beta team. I've gotten a ton of e-mails lately asking to post the blocks I created. And thought why not post them for others to check out. So hope everyone likes them. The SW block was by far the hardest to create and the Post-Tension block is the best block we have.
Post Tension Dynamic Block.
This Dynamic Block is a Structural Post Tension Tendon Dynamic Block. A post tension tendon is a steel cable that is embedded in the middle of concrete slabs. When AutoCAD 2006 was released most users went straight to their old legacy block libraries and started converting their 2000 old legacy blocks into 1 Dynamic block. I think it is great. But what happens once you convert those 2000 blocks and are left at a point where you have nothing else to convert to dynamic blocks? This is the time to start digging into your company LISP code. Yes, who thought Dynamic blocks would start cutting away on a companies LISP code. This one block alone has cut about 5 or 6 of the longest and error prone LISP code we have. When using LISP code its great for the initial instance of the block but once something changes the user has to manually re-run the LISP code again to generate all the correct information. This block uses NO LISP code and is totally user friendly. With this new dynamic block we’ve cut our time creating our foundation plans by more than 75% leaving us extra time to focus on other aspects of the project. This block also has a huge lookup table that has all our length conversions using the range function in the lookup tables.
SW Dynamic Block.
"This Dynamic block is a Structural Shear Wall Dynamic Block that has had many revisions due to the growing power of Dynamic Blocks. The Dynamic Block uses a combination of Visibility, Point, Lookup, and Linear parameters. There is a Total of 16 Parameters and 19 Actions. The block may look very intimidating at first but each parameter and action set is utilized to its fullest to perform to a users needs. When opening the Dynamic block in the Block editor it immediately shows that Dynamic blocks take time to learn and perfect. This block explains it all, the Dynamic blocks are almost too powerful at times but with many revisions it has been the most powerful one we have in our Dynamic Block library. There also is a Linear parameter in the Block Editor called S.W. Symbol Length that is stretched way down in the editor. This is designed this way so we don't have to use a Flip parameter. Since the Flip parameter re-justifies attributes when flipped we don't have to worry about modifying a block when the attributes are moved. This allows a user to stretch the block to the other side of the wall with ease.
I've also been asked from readers of this site, to create a page where users can post their blocks for others to see. If anyone has some intel on how to accomplish this, just send me a e-mail. Hopefully soon Autodesk will have a gallery for users to post blocks. This is how I learned the Authoring process of Dynamic Blocks.