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Creating a 2D flatshot from a 3D model

Creating a 2D flatshot from a 3D model - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Creating a 2D flatshot from a 3D model

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our 3dhouse.DWG file. And as you can see, I've left it all in the same state as it was at the end of the last video. So we're going to do a little bit of housekeeping because what I want to show you now is how to generate what is called a 2D flat shot of your 3D model. And it's a really useful tool if you just want to generate some 2D views of your 3D model quickly and easily. So make sure you go into the top viewport here. And what I'm going to do is select the section plane that I created. Let's just delete that so that everything kind of goes back to normal. And then we're going to go up to the view panel here, click here and I want a single viewport. That should take you back to your top view that you had selected as your viewport a moment ago. So what we're going to look at now, is how do we generate this flat shot? Well, you can see at the moment that we're in the top view, now…

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