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Modifying floor slabs

Modifying floor slabs - AutoCAD Architecture Tutorial

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Modifying floor slabs

- We're staying in our floor slab.dwg file. And what we're going to look at now is how we can modify slabs using some of the tools provided in AutoCAD Architecture. So you'll notice we're back in our Southwest isometric 3D view. You'll also notice that I'm using the shaded visual style here. Now, the reason I've done that is it just looks better. If I work in something like 2D wire frame, it gets a little bit complex, a little bit messy due to the floor composition and obviously the wall composition there. So let's go to shaded and it just tends to allow you to distinguish things. So for example, the curtain wall at the back there is a nice blue glazed color. The slab is a nice gray with those little orange dots indicating that ground floor concrete screen. Now, what we're going to do is select one of the floor slabs and use some of the tools in the floor slab to modify it. So let's go over here and select the floor…

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