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216 3D Design: Generating a section plane and creating section views

216 3D Design: Generating a section plane and creating section views - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

216 3D Design: Generating a section plane and creating section views

- [Instructor] The full version of AutoCAD allows you not only to work in two dimensions, but also three dimensions. To allow you to work with 3D design. And we're going to take a little look at some features in the 3D design part of AutoCAD that just allow you to work a little bit smarter, rather than harder. So we got a new drawing for you. It's called 216_3D DESIGN-Sections.dwg. You can see the name of the file up there in the title bar in the AutoCAD screen in front of you. As usual, This file is downloadable from the library for you to follow along with this tips and tricks video. Now a little bit of housekeeping before we start. We are in a 3D environment in this particular file. So you want to make sure that you are in the Model tab. Down here, you can see Model. There, like so, And that's the bottom-left corner. And also more importantly, over here on the ViewCube, you should see North, South, East, and West like that. And you should be in the top 3D view looking down on your…

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