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Changing camera settings

Changing camera settings - AutoCAD Architecture Tutorial

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Changing camera settings

- Once again, we're in our 3D overall view dot DWG file. And you can see we're in our Southwest isometric over here. And you'll also notice that we're still in the X-Ray visual style. Now, one of the features of AutoCAD architecture that is extremely useful is the ability to orbit around the 3D model. So what I'm going to do is hold down the Shift key on the keyboard, and hold down the wheel on the mouse. And the orbit symbol appears, and I can orbit around like so. so what I've done, is I've twisted around. Can you see my camera now is in front of me, and I'm kind of looking down the camera lens at the view. Now it's classed as a custom view, cause it's not using one of the preset 3D views. So it says custom view over here in the view controls. Now, if I just do a little bit of panning now, just not affecting the camera view, obviously, but planning in the actual drawing, and get a bit closer as well, you'll notice…

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