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Create custom windows

Create custom windows - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Create custom windows

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- [Instructor] Let's focus on building some custom windows in this video. In particular, I'm interested in these two banks of windows on this sketch that go into these holes here and here, so I'm going to zoom in and navigate so we can focus on this bank of windows to start with. And I think it's identical to the bank adjacent, so we should just be able to model this and copy it over. Let's begin by changing the current layer to the -WINDOW layer and then draw a rectangle around the opening. Draw additional rectangles inside each glazed area. Of course you could use the elements of the sketch itself to form the basis of your model but I prefer to trace over this sketch and that way I don't destroy the sketch, I'm creating something new. But now I want to access what I've just created but it's underneath the sketch, so I need to turn off the layers of this sketch. I'll type layoff, Enter and instead of clicking right here because that could be ambiguous, I might select the object that…

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