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Generating sections from a 3D model - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 3D Essential Training
Generating sections from a 3D model
- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our 3dhouse.dwg file. And in the previous video, I explained how to generate a 2D flat shot. And you can see it there on the right-hand side of the drawing. It's that white block here with the white layers there, like so and it's just a simple block that's been created from the data in our little 3D house model. Now you remember, I talked about section planes earlier. What we're going to do, we're going to go to the home tab on the ribbon and into the section panel and click on that section blank. And we're going to generate a section, just approximately here, click once there. Using your polar tracking, take it all the way through to the right and click again, like so. So, you should end up with a section plane that highlights only the small part of the roof. What we're going to look at now is how we generate a 3D sectional view, based on our section plane that we've just…
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