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How to create a canted wall

How to create a canted wall

- [Instructor] A Twitter follower asked me recently if I have any ideas on how to create a wall that is 300 millimeters on top and 600 at the base, and by the screenshot they included, I assume they're looking for a canted wall. So I suggested you could try a sweep, and so I'd like to walk through that process with you here. So I'm going to build this one completely from scratch, and because the Twitter follower was asking in metric, I'm going to use the metric files to do this. So here under Families is where I want to start. So I'm going to create a new family. I'll go up one step to the English folder, and then I want to start with the metric profile template. So in order to create a sweep, we need a profile, and I'll just use the generic profile template there, and this profile just gives you two reference planes that mark where the insertion point of this family is. To that I'll add two more reference planes. One up here running vertically that I will set at 3,000 millimeters…

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