From the course: AutoCAD: Importing a 2D Project into 3ds Max

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Using the Bridge tool for top sections of door and window openings

Using the Bridge tool for top sections of door and window openings

From the course: AutoCAD: Importing a 2D Project into 3ds Max

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Using the Bridge tool for top sections of door and window openings

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- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our 3D ground floor dot max scene in 3ds Max, and in the previous video, we placed our slice plane. You can see that little box going around the geometry. You can also see the height of the slice plane as it cuts through the geometry, as well. Those white lines towards the top of the external walls. What we need to do now is convert that to what is called an editable poly. Now this might sound a bit weird, but all you've got to do is hover over it, and there's the slice plane. It's a right click and you convert to editable poly. Like that, and what you'll find now is this is editable and what it's done is it's given you geometry that you can select on your external walls, that's the important bit. Now what we've got to do is go over here now for selection and we're going to select polygons. Now those polygons that we select are going to be the polygons here. Can you see…

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