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Working with the structural drawing (FP)

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Working with the structural drawing (FP)

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- [Voiceover] What were going to do now is we're going to look at working with our structural drawing before we reference it into our facilities management drawing. Now, the first thing we would normally do is use the good old purge command. Now, I'm just gonna type it. It's a lot quicker. P-U-R-G-E, like so. Hit enter, and the purge dialog box kicks in. Now, it's quite a long dialog box, so I'm just gonna bring it down here so that you can see the top part of it. You want to be set here to view items you can purge. And anything you can purge, will have a plus sign next to it. So if I click on this plus sign here, there's all these different things here that I can actually purge out of the drawing. Now these are all blocks, so basically I can get rid of all of these blocks if I want to. I don't actually need them, 'cause all I'm worried about, with my structural drawing, is walls, doors, and windows. That's pretty much it. The reason being is I need the walls, and the openings in the…

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