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Using Hide and Isolate

Using Hide and Isolate - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using Hide and Isolate

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our ground floor plan revision five .DWG. And you can see I've zoomed to the extent of the visible drawn objects in the model tab. We're going to zoom in on the restrooms over here sort of in the middle, on the left hand side. Get the cross edge just over them, roll up on the wheel a few notches and you can see there's our restrooms there with our little sinks and our cubicles and our WCs. Now, there's a lovely feature in AutoCAD and it's called hide and isolate. So what I can do is I can select a group of objects that I might want to hide, and AutoCAD will hide them for me so I can work on other parts of the geometry in my drawing. So I'm going to select these two doors here. And the doors also show like a sort of entrance, exit area, hence the rectangles. what I'm also going to do is select the sinks like so, and I'm just going to work my way around selecting all of the objects that…

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