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Document tools

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- So now that our building is starting to come together and it's starting to feel like a good representation of some of the spatial qualities that we're trying to express. Let's talk about documentation and some of the documentation tools. So let's go to the first floor. So I'm going to jump over to first floor via my navigator and here we have the first floor. And so you'll find the documentation tools and your toolbar on the left-hand side of your screen. They cover pretty much all of the different ways that you might want to create or put some information from texts to labels to dimensions and a host of other ones. And we'll go into more detail of all of these later in the course. And so you can also find that at the top of the string. And if you go to the menu document and document tools you'll see that here as well. I'm just going to show you a few of these so that you have the ability to start laying stuff out. So let's start with the labeled tool. So if I click on the label tool and I click on that arrow next to it there's a few different types of labeled tools. And the label tool is more than just a way to create text that's connected to a leader line but it also can be automatic text or texts that's pulling information out of the properties of an object. So it's very powerful and can really save you a lot of time. So let's show one of these I'm going to just, double-click on that. I'm going to just click on this wall what it did by just clicking on it. And I'm going to scroll through to the end. It just pulled this number automatically out of that law. So you can imagine if you have set up your walls or your assemblies to correctly represent your wall tags then you can just quickly go through your project and use the label tool. And you could start to label all of your walls and you can adjust how that labeled tool looks. Then let's just look at the standard label tool that we're all familiar with. So if I wanted to put some text here, like hose bib, I could do that. And then these labeled tools, as you can imagine have a lot of different options within them. And we'll dive into this later in the course. So I also want to show you the dimension tool. And so we have the dimension tool. Again, we can click that little fly out and I can select different types of dimensions. So if I wanted to do section or elevation dimensions or if I want to just do a plan dimension to the core of an element, and so I'm going to select this one. And so I'm going to just double click on that. And I am going to just measure between these two and there we go, and we have a dimension and again like everything else dimension tools have a lot of different options within them but it's a good place to start with the favorites. The favorites, the graph is half just provided is a good way to start. And then let's just look at the text tool. So if you wanted to add some text you can easily just double click on that. And then you can create a text box, like creating a box or you can just double click and start typing. So we'll just say adjacent property. And there you go. So we'll talk about these tools in a lot more detail as we progress through the course.

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