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Creating drafting and legend views

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Creating drafting and legend views

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- [Instructor] If you want to create a diagram or a typical detail, then chances are you're going to want to start in a drafting view. of drafting views. There's a drafting view, and then there's also something called the legend view, so what I'd like to do is show you how to create a drafting view and then kind of compare and talk about when you might want to choose one or the other. So let's start by creating a drafting view. and really the idea of a drafting view is it's just a blank sheet of paper that you would give a name and a scale to and you can draw only two dimensional components I have on screen right now, drafting view won't show any part of the live model. and it will suggest a scale here. So this is an imperial file so I have imperial scales, but yours might show metric scales if you started in the metric template. Either way, I'm going to accept the default scale here, that I get this blank sheet of paper. Now one of the things I'm going to demonstrate is going to…

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