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Creating a new 3D boundary for the external walls

Creating a new 3D boundary for the external walls

From the course: AutoCAD: Importing a 2D Project into 3ds Max

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Creating a new 3D boundary for the external walls

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our zero zero underscore ground floor underscore boundaries drawing, and in the previous video, I explained to you about the boundary command and how you can generate your boundary polylines using that particular command. So what we need to do now is generate our boundary polylines for our external walls. So the first thing we need to do is make sure we're on the appropriate layer. So layer drop down in the layers panel, and we want to be using 3D walls external. We're doing the external walls. So click on 3D walls external. If it's not the current drafting layer already, you must make it the current layer. So 3D walls external, click on the name there like so, and you can see that's the current drafting layer. Now it's up to you which way you use the boundary command. You can use B poly, type it, press enter. That'll bring up the dialog box. Or you can go to the draw panel, click on the…

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