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Add building elements for an imprint

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Add building elements for an imprint

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- [Instructor] The goal here is to be much more specific about the placement of openings, like windows and doors. And it's under the massing tab, that what you're going to see is these building maker tools, where I can say, "Give me a wall". It doesn't matter what the wall is. I'm going to say that it's location is the wall's outside face, it's going to be an out side of the mass. So when I click on here, what I'm actually doing is creating a wall on top of the mass. And now, if I go to the floor plan, and I've got my walls switched on here, I can see this, I want to place openings that will create an imprint on the mass to create the precise location of openings. So, what I did here, just to speed it up a bit, if you say "insert", "link a .cad file", if you look under the Project Alameda folder, and you look under linked drawing files, if you take level one and bring that in, what you're seeing is a two-dimensional drawing of the apartment units that are here. So what I need to do is…

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