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Using boundaries

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Using boundaries

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- [Instructor] Once again we're staying in the ModifyingObjects.dwg file. And we're going to have a look now at the Boundary command. Now the Boundary command is very useful when you want to specify boundaries of an area and you don't want to have to draw all the way 'round The intricacies of that boundary. A very typical example of this is highlighting a room and going around the edges of columns and things like that. The Boundary command is very useful because you pick an area inside the boundary and it finds the boundary for you. Let's have a look at how that works. So we're going to go to the Layer dropdown first in the Layers panel in the Home tab on the ribbon. And you'll notice we've got an I-FLOOR layer that is frozen at the moment. Click on the snowflake to thaw it out, and then click on that layer to make it the current drafting layer. Then what we'll do is we'll go to the top here where it says top. Click on it and we'll go to the dropdown there, Custom Model Views, and you…

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