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Using draw order

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Using draw order

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- We're staying in our zero zero ground fm areas drawing, and what we're going to look at now is draw order, and utilizing draw order when we're working with our occupancy areas. Now draw order is a really useful tool in autoCAD for facilities management drawings. You'll remember, when we referenced in the GA drawing, and renamed it as FP, we brought it into the FM drawing. Now I'm going to click on one of the columns of the FP x ref. There it is there. And you can see that the external reference tab kicks in on the ribbon and whole of that drawing underneath our FM areas, poly lines and so on, is highlighted in the blue there. If I right click now and go to Draw Order on the shortcut menu, and bring it to the front, can you see what happens? The poly lines kind of disappear for all of our different areas, and our spaces. If I zoom in on this Office 02 here, you'll notice that the poly lines going around are kind of muted. I could obviously hover over that one, and I could obviously…

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