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Checking upper and lower opening levels

Checking upper and lower opening levels - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Checking upper and lower opening levels

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our PreparingFor3D.dwg file and you'll notice I'm in the top left viewport in the model space, the top view. What we're going to start doing now is checking some of our structural opening levels in the 3D model because you'll notice if you look at the viewport below the top view, this one here, you can see that everything is still flat, and we don't want that. We want to make sure that all of our structural openings are at the appropriate levels before we start extruding them and making them into 3D solids that we can then start subtracting from the overall wall outline, wall 3D solid that we're going to form with our pre-fabricated unit. Now it's a lot easier to show you this than it is to try and explain it so what we're going to do now, we're going to come out of the four viewport view. We're going to go to the one viewport. Now the way to do this is very simple. You simply type VPORTS again…

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