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Set axis and model shade roof

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Set axis and model shade roof

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- [Instructor] I want to draw a shading roof over the top of my model. This would not be for presentation purposes and looking like an actual roof. What I want is really just a surface that does not cover the top of these masses because these would be represented as mass roofs in the analysis that's done inside. I don't need a physical roof in there so much as something that's really a shading surface for the surrounding mass surfaces for these. In addition to what the balconies are doing. So first step would be if I right click on the grid I can choose to set my axis. There, see. It gets pick up by the origin of the axis and what I'm going to do is just snap up to the top. So on that axis now what I can do is place a perimeter. I'm just going to draw a box. That's going to sit on there. I just want you to see that you've got above and below the new workplane that I've got. Graphically, I can just pull these out so…

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