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Enabling live sections

Enabling live sections - AutoCAD MEP Tutorial

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Enabling live sections

Here's something cool we can actually cut a section then go to a 3D view that shows only the contents that clip section. This is really awesome for showing a specific congested areas in 3D on your drawings. The objective of this rather short video will be to cut a section then enable live sectioning on that region. We'll then go to a 3D view and check out the results. So to get started, I'm going to zoom in to this area right here. I'm going to create another section. I'm going to go to vertical section, and I'm going to pick a point up here, I'm going to pick a point down here. And my next point, I'm going to hit Enter from my length this time, I'm going to type in 40 feet, I want to get more of the building I'm going to hit enter. Now, we have a section all set I'm going to do two things first I'm going to select the section, I'm going to generate a section, I'm going to select all of my objects. I'm going to hit Enter. I'm going to pick a point. This one I'm going to put over here.…

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