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Using live sectioning in 3D AutoCAD

Using live sectioning in 3D AutoCAD - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD 3D Essential Training

Using live sectioning in 3D AutoCAD

- [Instructor] We're staying in our 3D house.dwg file, and can you see I've left it in the same state as it was at the end of the last video. Let's change our view of the model. Let's go back to the top view, on the view cube, like so. And there's our section plane, right there like so. Now, you'll notice, when I select the section plane, it will highlight. So I've got Live Section switched on here. So you can see I get a contextual section plane tab on the ribbon. Live Section can be either on or off. So if I switch Live Section on, can you see what happens? All the updates I've made show up, with the Live Section on. Ignore the flat shot, because that's just a 2D snapshot of the model. But the Live Section, can you see? The changes kick in accordingly, like so. And they change deliberately, to show me that obviously my section is based on the settings on my section plane. Now, here's where it gets interesting,…

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