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Using the ViewCube - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2018 Essential Training
Using the ViewCube
- [Voiceover] We starting in a new drawing for this particular part of the navigating drawings section in our AutoCAD 2017 essentials course. The new drawing is called 03_NavigatingDrawings3D.dwg. Now the reason I've called it 3D this time is because there is some 3D information on this particular drawing. But right now we can't see it. Now the reason we can't see it is we are in the top named view in AutoCAD 2017. Now if you use the ViewCube in the top right corner of the drawing area in AutoCAD, you can utilize the ViewCube to see isometric views, and actually see whether there's any 3D information on this particular drawing. So over here on the ViewCube, if I hover over it, can you see there's a little home icon? If I click on that, the home view right now is that top view, so I can't tell for love nor money whether there's any 3D elements. So I hover over the ViewCube here and I use that little bottom left corner there which is an isometric view. Can you see that little square…
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