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Inserting the cabinet

Inserting the cabinet

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Inserting the cabinet

- [Narrator] Now that we've generated the sheet for our electrical closet drawing, the first thing we might want to do is insert our enclosure and maybe some ducts and some rails. So first thing, I want to jump into my Cabinet Layout tab. Again, that's where the majority of my commands will be. And I have a few tools here to add a cabinet, add ducts, and add rails. So let's try to add cabinet here. I might get this error popping up, saying that you must select a location, or an element of a location, within the Cabinet Layout panel to execute this command. So let's take a look at what that means. Essentially, it's telling me that I have to select a location for this cabinet. The Cabinet Layout panel, a new panel to us, let's take a look. It should be this panel, it should automatically turn on or activate when we're in a cabinet layout. But again, if not, I'd just have to jump to my View tab to turn on my Cabinet Layout panel here. Now I see my panel here, and I see all the locations…

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