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Cut the wraparound walls down

Cut the wraparound walls down - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Cut the wraparound walls down

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- [Instructor] You can see in this elevation here that this wall is meant to be cut down to a certain level. We're going to have this roof wrap around the tower and then the wall down here is going to have clearstory windows on the top of it. What we can do is draw a line from the top of the wall here where it meets the roof and draw that line over and snap it perpendicularly to the model. This will tell us how high that wall has to go up to. Now I'd like to pull these walls down and I'll do that by holding down the control key and clicking on the top surface to access the sub object. You want to make sure that the entire object selects like that and the dismo should go in the middle. Then click on the blue arrow and snap that to the end of the data line that you drew and press escape to deselect. We'll deal with the tower walls later. They're obviously going to go up higher and you can see that here in the sketch. Right now, let's focus on this wraparound system of walls. Let's take…

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