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Locating polyline area data

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Locating polyline area data

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- [Voiceover] We're now in a new chapter of our AutoCAD Facilities Management 101 Areas course, and what I've done this time is I've actually kept the same drawing that we used in the previous chapter, so you should have been saving as you've gone along, saving each time, so in the 00_GND_FM_TSTYLE.DWG file with the structural plan linked in like previously. Now what I've done is I've literally left this as it was at the end of the last chapter, where we're in the layout tab, and you can see the table there, you can see the viewport that we created, ready to locate our polyline areas and bring them into the table itself. Now, this is the using the area table chapter, so what we're going to do now is use that area table. As you can see it's blank at the moment. Now, do not activate your viewport yet. What we're going to do is zoom in first. Now I'm gonna pan down a little bit, and then I'm gonna use a command called zoom window, so that we window the areas in the layout that we need to…

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