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Complex view creation

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- [Instructor] Okay, so here's the problem. We've got this fairly complex shape here, and we'd like to make a view showing this top surface here which is denoted, Surface Number One. Let's go ahead and open them all so you can see what's going on here. So here's my model. You can see here, it's just basically this rectangular block. It's got a couple cuts over here, but it has this kind of angled surface and we'd like to kind of, look at that surface straight down on it. So if I click on this and I click on Normal Two, I can then see the view I'm pretty much looking for in the drawing. So let's jump back over to that drawing. Alright, and let's figure out how we can create that. So if I go over to View Layout, click on Projected View, you can see if I projected something over here to the lefthand side. That's probably not it, and especially if I switch to the different style with the hidden lines visible, you can see there that that surface really is not being shown, right? Especially…

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