From the course: AutoCAD: 3D Modeling for Mechanical Designs
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Adding section views - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: 3D Modeling for Mechanical Designs
Adding section views
- [Instructor] We're staying in our MetalPlate_FABRICATION.dwg file, and we're still in Layout1 as we were at the end of the last video where we placed our views in our layout tab. Now I'm going to zoom in on the plan view here, because what I want to do is create a sectional view just to the right of it here. Now you'll remember, in the previous video, I mentioned the settings for our details and our sections. So if I click on Detail and Section View Style here, I can set up those, basically, styles of the details and the sections. We want sections in this case, so it's this one here. And you can see that there's my Metric50, notice Metric50 up there, and there's my style. Now I can set it as current. I can create a new one, I can modify, et cetera. So you'll notice there's my A-A section with my arrows. There's my little sectional view at the scale of the viewport and the view. So if I close that now and just leave…
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