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Manage user coordinate systems (OVERVIEW)

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Manage user coordinate systems (OVERVIEW)

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- [Instructor] In this chapter where we're covering application and drawing management, we're moving into another section of the chapter now and we're going to take a look at how we manage user coordinate systems. Now for that, we've got a new drawing for you. It's called Building Plot.dwg and it's a very simple drawing. Just make sure that you are in the model tab. There are no layout tabs set up for this. We're just going to be working in the model tab. And you can see there that we've got a simple building plot. The green line represents the boundary of the property. The blue cyan colored lines actually represent the building. They're the roof lines of the building. It's a very simple drawing, but it brings about a complex issue that you might have when you are working on a drawing like this. For example, if I go to the layer dropdown on the home tab there and just set it to buildings, a building is the current…

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