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Working with the ViewCube and the Navigation Bar

Working with the ViewCube and the Navigation Bar - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Working with the ViewCube and the Navigation Bar

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We're in a new drawing for this particular video and it's called simple3dobject.dwg and it's exactly what it says on the tin, it's a drawing that contains a simple 3D object. When you're working with full AutoCAD, and I hasten to stress full AutoCAD here, not AutoCAD Lt. you can work with 3D solids and 3D objects in 3D design. can't do that with AutoCAD Lt. because you don't have the 3D interface. AutoCAD Lt. is in essence AutoCAD Lite so it's a 2D drafting tool only so if you're using AutoCAD Lt. this particular video doesn't apply to you. So we've opened up our simple 3D object DWG file and what we're taking a look at here is how we work with things like the viewcube and the preset views and the navigation bar. Now Now what I'd like you to do first is just pop up here to the top left corner. Can you see where it says top and 2D wireframe. Now at the moment we're working in 2D wireframe so it's all just single line drawing. But what I can do here is I can select a visual style. So if…

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