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View focus when creating 2D geometry

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View focus when creating 2D geometry

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- In this example, we're going to be talking about view focus. Now, view focus is what is surrounding an individual object on a sheet of paper. So, in this case here, when I click on this one here, notice you get this little box around the outside here. That's the focus box or showing what's included in that item there. Now, if I click on something over here, like this, this has a completely different view focus and notice that the outside of the sheet of paper is highlighted in purple or pink. So, that means that line belongs to the sheet view focus and not to this one here. Notice if I move this around here, nothing really happens. Now, if I click on that one there and highlight it, I can double click and lock the view focus. Then, I can come up here to sketch and maybe create something like that annotation. Like a note. Let's just call it Note 1. Doesn't matter. Now, if I move this around, notice that little Note 1 follows me around here. I can move it up, I can move it down…

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