From the course: AutoCAD: Developing A Prefab Unit
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Adding windows and doors in 2D only - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Developing A Prefab Unit
Adding windows and doors in 2D only
- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our Developing The 2D Plan.dwg file, and you'll notice that I've jumped back into the model tab which is where we weren't when we left the last video, we were in the layout tab. So just jump back to the model tab in the drawing, and you can see that we've got our services there, our grids, our walls, and our structural openings in place. What we're going to do now is we're going to place some polylines that are going to represent the window and the door. Now again, this is all to do with layer management. As you start to build your pre-fabricated unit ready to drop it into a project somewhere, you want to make sure that you've got polylines that you can extrude that will allow you to obviously have a window, a door, et cetera. Now, the window that I'm going to place is just going to be a rectangular polyline, but I'm going to place it in this structural opening up here where we…
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