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Creating elevations

Creating elevations - AutoCAD Architecture Tutorial

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Creating elevations

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- [Instructor] So, we're staying in our AutoCAD Architecture project and you'll notice, I've left the project in the same state as it was at the end of the last video where we were in that 3D composite model drawing. Now, what we're going to look at in this video is generating some elevations from our model. Now, what we're going to do is generate an elevation on each side of the building. North, south, east, and west. Now, to do that, ideally, you want a separate drawing to do it. You don't want to put it on your Ground Floor GA, because that is your Ground Floor GA. So, we go to the Views tab and we go to Views here. Right-click New View Drawing, General, and this time, it's going to be, let's say, Elevations and Sections. Very simple, you could call it something different, you might number it, for example. And I'm not going to open it in the Drawing Editor just yet. I'm going to click on Next and I want everything this time. Roof and Ground Level. Now, the reason I want both is…

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