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Sectioning tools

Sectioning tools - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Sectioning tools

- [Instructor] So welcome to Chapter 3, and now we're going to take a look at section tools. So one of the most powerful features of As-Built is the sectioning tools. Having the ability to crop out areas of the point cloud makes it much easier to work in AutoCAD. We can reduce the number of points on the screen, which speeds up navigation. And also by clipping out the points we don't need, we can isolate areas we may want to work in, and we can see everything a lot more clearly. So let's make a few sections and practice using the clipping tools. So let's take a look at the point cloud we have to work with here. Take a quick look through and you'll see there's a lot of points in there. There's a lot of information that we don't need. We're not interested in the trees and some of this distant piping that you see over in this area. So we don't want to waste any time calculating every time that rotates. So we're just going to remove that from the view. So what I'm going to do is I'm going…

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