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Using boundaries

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Using boundaries

- [Voiceover] Yet again we're staying in the same drawing, and you'll notice I've done a Zoom Extents this time. And we're nicely zoomed out, looking at the whole building with all of the edits that we've made so far. What I'm also hoping is that you've saved your drawing as you've gone along through the videos, saving all the work that you've done and saving it to a separate file name. So let's have a look now at AutoCAD boundaries. Now, AutoCAD boundaries are extremely useful. What they do is allow you to specify a boundary, but also, you can place a polyline around that boundary for preparation for something like hatching, maybe. Or you might just need a polyline in place to surround a particular area. Now what I'm going to do is I'm gonna go back over to the View control and click on Top here. And go to our Custom Model Views, and I'm gonna select Entrance. Now this takes me down to that area where the double doors are. Now in previous videos, we looked at placing a rectangle in…

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