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Creating a section line

Creating a section line - AutoCAD MEP Tutorial

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Creating a section line

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Suppose we want to add a section marker along with that intersection. We can do that. It's simple. The objective of this video is to add a section line. What a section line is, it's a basically a section marker. We will then place the section off to the side. Then go back and edit the attribute in the section marker that comes along with the section we just placed. So to get started let's jump into our MEP mechanical drawing. I'm going to zoom back in on this area because there's a lot of stuff here. In plan it's very difficult to see what's going on. We have no idea how high some of these elements are, especially over in here. We're going to cut a section line and we're going to encompass this whole area. To do that, let's go to the home tab. This time, let's grab this button here called section line. Go ahead and select that, and we're going to pick two spots. I'm going to pick a spot right here. I'm going to come straight down and I'm going to zoom in, and I'm going to pick a spot…

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