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Adding the ceiling

Adding the ceiling - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Adding the ceiling

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[Instructor] We're staying in the Developing The 3D Unit.dwg file. And as you can see, I'm in the southwest asymmetric with a Conceptional visual style which is highlighting our structural openings for our door and our window. Now you'll notice a polyline going around the outside edge of the walls there. That polyline is our Finished Ceiling Level polyline that we created earlier. What we want to do now is take that polyline to the inside edges of our external walls and then we want to extrude it as a solid upwards a little bit into the suspended ceiling to give it a 3D solid ceiling, rather than just a polyline that represents a ceiling. So what we're going to do now is we're going to go into the top-view on the ViewCube, like so. And what we'll also do is change our visual style back to 2D wireframe. Now you can't actually see the polyline that forms the Finished Ceiling Level. But you do want to make sure that you're on…

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