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Working with the environment

Working with the environment - AutoCAD Architecture Tutorial

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Working with the environment

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- [Instructor] So, we're staying in our 3D composite model drawing in views drawings in our project. And what I've done I've just zoomed out a little bit and done a little bit of 3D orbit by holding down the Shift key and the wheel, just pivoted it slightly there to make sure that we can see the spotlight and the camera. Now, one thing you can with Auto CAD Architecture in your projects is develop a sun study. Now, you can switch things on like shadows and you can switch on the sun status. Now, at the moment I've switched the sky off again, so I'm going to put the sky back on. So, sky and illumination like so. Now, if I do that little orbit now, you can see that we've got the horizon there and we've got a bit of dusky sky as I mentioned previously. So, there's a lot of stuff going on there that makes it look a little bit better. Now, I'm going to switch on the shadows here in the lights panel in the render tab under render. So, I'm going to set that to full shadows like so and I want…

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