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Precutting column families

Precutting column families

- [Narrator] This video, I want to discuss some special behavior that we have for columns. This applies to both structural columns and architectural columns, and allows us to customize the way that they are cut when we display them in plan views. Now, the model that I have here has just some simple rectangular columns. And if we look at this model in 3-D, you can see that it really isn't going to matter where we cut these columns. If you cut them low or high, you're going to get the same result. So, what I want to do is select all of these columns visible in the current view, and I'm going to change them to this one that I've called column with tapered base. And if we look at that in 3-D, what you're going to see is that I've got this tapered, tall base here, down at the bottom of the column, and then a cylindrical shaft sitting on top of that. Now, if we look at that in elevation view, and take a quick dimension, what we'll see is that the height of that base component is six feet…

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