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Modifying railings - AutoCAD Architecture Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Architecture 2021 Essential Training
Modifying railings
- [Instructor] We're staying in our verticalcirculation.dwg file. And as you can see, I've zoomed into the top of the staircase where we can see the handrail and the ballisters and the posts, we're also in a Shaded Visual style. What you'll find is if you change your Visual style to something like Shaded, when you're working on detail like handrails and balisters and posts, it just kind of helps being able to visualize what's going on as you work through editing the detail, it just seems to help somehow. So it makes sure you use something like Shaded rather than 2D Wireframe. Can you see why it just kind of assists a little bit, just when you're tweaking things, to see what they look like. If you need to be accurate and use your object snaps obviously jump back into 2D Wireframe because then you can see where you're snapping to for obvious reasons. But when you're just working on the actual aesthetics of your railings…
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