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Adding a brace frame elevation

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Adding a brace frame elevation

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- [Voiceover] What I'd like to do now is create some lateral brace frames. Up to this point, we've done pretty much everything in 2D, especially in a 2D plan. What I want to do is put in a 3D element. However, we're going to remain in 2D. The trick here is we need to create an elevation and we need to set the reference plane onto a grid line. To do that, I'm going to go down to Level 2 in the Project Browser. What I'm going to do now, is I'm going to go to my View tab, and on the create panel I have an Elevation button. I'm going to come to the side of it here, and I'm going to hit the dropdown, and I'm going to create a Framing Elevation. Go ahead and click on Framing Elevation. Now notice I can't put anything in until I find a grid line. So on this grid line, I'm going to come up here, and I'm going to pick a point about in the middle, outside looking in. Once I pick that, I have Elevation 1-a squarely placed in my plan. Perfect. I'm going to open this elevation up by…

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