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Using visual styles to develop 3D views

Using visual styles to develop 3D views - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using visual styles to develop 3D views

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- [Instructor] So we're in another AutoCAD tip and trick for lynda.com. So we've got a new drawing for you. Now, visual styles are normally used in a 3D drafting environment. However, you can gain access to 3D objects in your 2D drafting environment, as well. So we're in a standard 2D drafting environment right now in our 08 visual styles drawing. Now again, you can download that, as per normal from your lynda.com exercise files to follow along with the video. Now at the moment, we are in the top view in a 2D drawing but we're looking at the top of if I hover over it a 3D solid. So that means that this 3D solid also has a depth, we're looking down on it, we're looking at the top of it. It's like we're looking at the top of a skyscraper in a movie. You know those helicopter views where you look down on the tops of the skyscrapers on a cityscape. That kind of idea. Now, we've got the view cube over here. So I could go to an isometric view on the view cube. If I hover over it and click…

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