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Demo: Constructing a multiview part

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Demo: Constructing a multiview part

Welcome back. In this lesson, I'm going to show you the approach I would take to recreate this file. Before we get started, let me mention that there's no right or wrong way to construct this drawing. The most important thing, is that we accurately reproduce the geometry. In fact, I'm going to use as many different tools as possible. That way this exercise will also serve as a nice review. I'll start by creating a new file. I'll click the New icon. I'll use the acad.dwt template. I will then click the View tab, and I'll come down to the User Interface panel and I'll choose Tile Vertically. This way I can see a nice side-by-side view of the example and my new file. I'm going to click to put the focus on the example drawing. And I'll zoom out and center this on screen. I'll then go back to the home tab. Let's start by taking a look at the layers that are used in this file. I'll open the layer properties manager, and it looks like I need to create a center. A hatch and a part layer. We…

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