From the course: AutoCAD MEP Essential Training
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Refreshing and updating the sections - AutoCAD MEP Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD MEP Essential Training
Refreshing and updating the sections
Like AutoCAD's cousin Revit, these sections don't just magically update themselves whenever there's a change in the model. Unfortunately, we need to manually force the update for our sections to stay accurate. The objective of this video is to create yet another section through our model. We'll then make a change to the plan, and update the new section. We will then update every section in the entire drawing at once. So to get started, in our MEP-Mechanical drawing, I want to zoom in on the mechanical room. I'm going to click on Vertical Section. I'm going to zoom in and I'm going to cut a section right through this room here. Make sure you hit F8 to turn your ortho on. I'm going to zoom in so I don't accidentally snap to something else. And I'm going to pick a point right about here. My command prompt wants me to specify a next point. I'm all set. So I'm going to hit Enter. I'm going to enter a length of 20 feet, and I'm going to hit Enter. Now we have our section drawn in. Let's go…
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