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Using draw order

Using draw order - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using draw order

- [Voiceover] Sometimes when you're defining your space areas in AutoCAD, you need to highlight an area using something like a hatch or a gradient fill. What you'll also need to use perhaps is also a thing called Draw Auto which we're gonna cover in a little bit more depth. I have mentioned it already during the course, but I just want to show you how that works. So, we're still in our 00_GND_FM_SPACEAREAS.dwg file. Gonna zoom in on this polyline here, so I'm gonna zoom in nice and tight now. Just get that in the center of the screen, so I'm looking at this particular polyline right here. Now, what you might want to do is you might want to highlight that polyline using a gradient fill or something similar. Now, you'll notice there's some doors there. Now, if I put the gradient fill in, it's gonna cover up those doors, so let's have a look at how that works with the draw order. So, I'm staying in the Home tab on the ribbon. I'm gonna go to my Layers panel, and I'm gonna go to the layer…

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