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Broken-out section

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Broken-out section

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- [Voiceover] A breakout section is generally fairly easy to create, and more than likely on the exam they're going to give you a question asking you to create a breakout section, and then measure either an area or a perimeter. Let's go ahead and start one out here. So I'm going to choose to create a sketch. I'm going to go ahead and choose a circle. And I'm going to define a circle right over here. Kind of breaking into this section right there. And more than likely in the exam you'll have some type of dimension from that circle to some other relative edge that you have to put in. So I'm going to go ahead and type in a half inch right there, and maybe from this edge right here. We'll go ahead and say that's going to be a dimension of .25. Alright, so there is our dimesions, and how to find the diameter of the circle. Let's go ahead and say 2.6. So there's my circle that I want to use as my breakout section. Now it's pretty straightforward, and just go ahead over here to view layout…

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