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Working with structural members

Working with structural members - AutoCAD Architecture Tutorial

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Working with structural members

- [Instructor] We're staying in the structural design dot DWG file. And as you can see, we're in the top view, looking down on the grid, the bubbles and the existing columns that were placed when we created the grid. If you're not in the top view, use top here on the view cube like so, or you can go to the view manager here and as you can see, select top there as well. Now we're going to zoom in on this top left area of the grid. So zoom in, so that you can see grids A, B and C just there and grids four and five, and we're going to place some columns there. Now you can't get columns down here on your design tool palette. If I right-click on the little bunching up of tabs there, you can see, we don't have anything that relates to structural members and elements in our AutoCAD architecture model. So I'll just hit escape there. The way to do it is to go up to the build panel on the home tab, on the ribbon and go…

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