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3D enhanced support - AutoCAD Tutorial

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3D enhanced support

- [Instructor] In the AutoCAD 2017.1 update, there is also 3D enhanced support. Now, this is for when you're 3D drafting using 3D objects in your drawings. We've got a drawing open now, you can see it's 3D_Orbit.dwg. You can open that up from your lynda.com exercise files to follow along with the video. It's got a couple of 3D Solids. You can see there's one here, and there's one here, like so, two 3D Solids. They're only a zero, just sitting there happily in the drawing at the moment. Now, what I need to look at here is changing my View, first of all. Let's go to something like the Top View first. I've got the Bottom View there, let's make sure we're on the Top View. Then in the View Control, I'll go for something like SW Isometric. You can see there that we've got the two solids sitting on top of each other. Now, at the moment, the Visual Style is 2D Wireframe. The support that Autodesk are providing in this 2017.1 update is primarily for lots of facets like we've got on those 3D…

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