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Using the ViewCube

Using the ViewCube - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using the ViewCube

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- [Voiceover] You will have noticed in the previous video, when we were using the Navigation Wheel on the Nav Bar, that the ViewCube moves in conjuction with the location of the drawing in a 3D environment, so what we're gonna look at now is what the ViewCube can do for us, so if I come down here to the Nav Bar and click on Orbit here and just do an Orbit like so, what I can do now is I can quickly do an Orbit and I can just rotate the drawing like that, and then I'm going to right-click and Exit the Orbit Command like that, so my drawing is now in a weird view. Now, what you'll notice is the ViewCube is aligned with that view and I've also, up here, got a Custom View, so if I click on View Controls there, you'll notice there's all these set views: Top, Bottom, Isometric views. All of these tools here, these views here are what is represented by the ViewCube, so a corner of the ViewCube is an Isometric view, the back of the Cube is the Back view of the drawing and so on. You've also…

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