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Drawing shapes

Drawing shapes

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Drawing shapes

Sometimes the best way to relay what you'd like to do is to draw a simple shape or import a sketch or picture, that shows an example. eDrawings has a handy set of tools to basic shapes as well as ability to import various image formats that show up in the view window. To get started click on the annotation toolbar and we're going to be using this of tools down here. The line, rectangle, circle, bark and spline tools. To get started I'm going to move this model around, take this back face and click on normal too. Now what I want to do is I want to add a little rectangular cutout in the back side of this part. So to do that, I can make a note but it's probably a little bit easier if I just drew a shape about what I'm looking for. I'm looking for a cut out about that size, and then I can add a note to that that specifies cut out 1 by 2 inches. And I further detail this out with more notes if I wanted to specifying the height above the bottom and things like that. And I can add clouds or…

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