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- [Instructor] All right, well in the last lesson,

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we talked about the trace reference.

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And I placed some walls.

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But you know what I'm going to do,

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I'm going to delete these walls.

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You can put the walls in.

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That's definitely an approved method.

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But what we're going to do is

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we're going to talk about the fill tool.

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And so if we double click on that, it gives us some options.

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And so what I like to do is

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I will have something like a 50%,

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and maybe something that I can see pretty well

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or is distinct.

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So let's make it blue, 'cause we have our background.

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Let's make it blue, and let's also,

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we're going to have it transparent.

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And then we have a solid line

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representing the outline of the fill.

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And also with fills,

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you have the ability to adjust how the fill itself works.

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So if we were to use a vectorial fill,

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like a block or something of that nature,

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we can adjust the fill origin and direction.

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We can also affect the scale as well as the origin location.

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We can give it an ID.

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So why don't we use the block fill type,

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and then let's use a drafting fill.

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So there's four different fill types.

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So you can have your cover fill, drafting fill,

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a cut fill, as well as a cut fill for building materials.

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So let's just use the drafting fill.

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And let's put this on a different layer.

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Let's make this annotation,

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how 'about an existing plan two-dimensional annotation.

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So one thing I'm going to do is,

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because this trace is a little bit off,

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I am going to rotate it a little bit.

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So if I go over to the trace reference pallet

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and click on rotate reference,

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I'm going to click on this top edge of the building.

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And let me zoom in to make sure I'm grabbing it right.

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So I'm not totally grabbing it.

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So I'm going to do it again and grab it.

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I'm going to go to the bottom part of that building

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and click a second time.

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And now I'm going to push shift

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and I'm going to lock it in a vertical 90 degree orientation.

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Even when I've done those two operations,

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my fill tool is still selected.

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I still have it as the block concrete,

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so I'm not having to go back and select that again.

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And so there's couple of different construction methods.

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You can have a polygon, you can have just a rectangle,

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or you can have a rotated rectangle.

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So I'm just going to use the polygon method.

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And I'm going to click on here.

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And I am going to select this point and this point...

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And like that.

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So now I can clearly see the outline of the building.

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And one other method is

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this is probably a fill that came from AutoCAD.

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And so what I can try to do is, if I push the space button,

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it gives me this magic wand tool.

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And the magic wand tool basically

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will either try to fill out an interior

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of multiple different line segments or a fill itself.

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So you can either click inside

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and you can kind of see where it's going to go.

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And I'm just holding the space bar.

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Or I can try to click on the line itself.

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And since there's intersecting lines in here,

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it's going to be a little bit difficult

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for me to capture the interior of that sidewalk.

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So let's just do polygon again.

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And then I'm going to just choose a concrete.

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So I'm going to scroll down.

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And so we'll just use concrete site work.

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And I'm going to change the pen for that

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so that it's just a little bit lighter.

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And so I'm going to go to, like, a pen 66 for now.

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And what I'm going to do is

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I'm just going to follow the edges and/or the nodes

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and try to get around this as quickly as possible.

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And so, there's a little jog in that sidewalk.

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And then we can go over and select that.

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So, one other modeling technique that I'm using

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that I might not have explained completely

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is I'm using my scroll button to zoom in and out.

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And then I'm also using my scroll button,

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and I hold it down,

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and it gives me the ability to move the drawing or pan.

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And so while I'm doing that,

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as long as I don't click too many points

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or click the wrong button,

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then I can quickly just keep walking this fill around.

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But say I made a mistake.

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I was a little bit too quick or something happened.

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I can just push the delete button

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and I can go back a node,

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or whatever I just recently clicked,

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without losing the work that I've already done.

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So if I click, I can click here,

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and I'm clicking on the nodes,

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I can undo by just delete.

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And then I can reposition myself and go back.

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And then finally I can click and I've closed that fill.

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So fills are very useful,

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and they allow you to quickly lay out information

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without having to necessarily get stuck

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in an operation that you feel cumbersome in.

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Explore the fill tool.

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And we'll definitely be talking more about that

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later in the course.