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Creating extrusions

Creating extrusions

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Creating extrusions

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- [Instructor] All right, here we go. This is the first 3D shape we're going to do because it's the most common, a simple extrusion. Let's just jump right into it. In (indistinct) under families, let's go open. Browse to where you are keeping your exercise files and grab the file called 01_02_Extrusion. Okay, let's just take a look at what we have. Remember, we have our center line, left, right, front, back reference planes. And we have our reference planes that are set at two foot length. If remember we selected the dimension and added a label to them. In the properties, we can check out those labels by going to Family Type and here's all of our parameters. Click Apply, click Okay. Now on the Create tab, click the Extrusion button. There's a couple ways we can do this. The safest way I find is if we click the Pick Lines button on the draw panel. Go ahead and do that, click Pick Lines. Now notice on the Options bar, we…

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