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Creating custom objects

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Creating custom objects

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- [Voiceover] You may just get away with all the objects that we have on the built-in ArchiCAD library, but if you want you can also create some custom objects, so let's take a look how we do that. I'm gonna go back here to the 2D drafting layer combinations, so we have our furniture back. Let's create a 3D section here using the marquee tool, and we're gonna be creating a new TV rack. I'm gonna raise the TV a little bit. And right now we have this slab that is made of stone, so I'm gonna change this to plywood, and then I'm gonna drag and copy this slab here on the 3D, move it up a little bit, let's do a wall, generic, also made of plywood, 14 millimeters thick. But before doing the wall, let's move it away from the building wall a little bit, so let's move it like five centimeters on both sides. Now we can do the wall, and I'm gonna flip the wall, move it down. And then I'm gonna make multiple copies here, and then finally let's create a wall here on the front and move that back a…

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