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- So now that our building is starting to come together

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and it's starting to feel like a good representation

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of some of the spatial qualities

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that we're trying to express,

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let's talk about documentation

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and some of the documentation tools.

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So let's go to the first floor.

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So I'm going to jump over

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to first floor via my navigator.

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And here we have the first floor.

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And so you'll find the documentation tools

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in your toolbar on the left-hand side of your screen.

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They cover pretty much all

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of the different ways that you might want to create

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or put some information from texts to labels

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to dimensions and a host of other ones.

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And we'll go into more detail

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of all of these later in the course.

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And so you can also find that at the top of the screen.

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And if you go to the menu document and document tools

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you'll see that here as well.

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I'm just going to show you a few of these

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so that you have the ability to start laying stuff out.

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So let's start with the label tool.

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So if I click on the label tool,

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and I click on that arrow next to it,

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there's a few different types of label tools.

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And the label tool is more than just a way to create text

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that's connected to a leader line,

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but it also can be automatic text

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or text that's pulling information out

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of the properties of an object.

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So it's very powerful and can really save you a lot of time.

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So let's show one of these.

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I'm going to just double-click on that.

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I'm going to just click on this wall.

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What it did by just clicking on it,

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and I'm going to scroll through to the end,

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it just pulled this number automatically out of that wall.

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So you can imagine if you have set up your walls

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or your assemblies to correctly represent your wall tags,

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then you can just quickly go through your project

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and use the label tool.

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And you could start to label all of your walls.

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And you can adjust how that label tool looks.

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Then let's just look at the standard label tool

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that we're all familiar with.

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So if I wanted to put some text here, like hose bib,

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I could do that.

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And then these label tools, as you can imagine,

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have a lot of different options within them.

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And we'll dive into this later in the course.

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So I also want to show you the dimension tool.

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And so we have the dimension tool.

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Again, we can click that little fly out,

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and I can select different types of dimensions.

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So if I wanted to do section or elevation dimensions,

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or if I want to just do a plan dimension

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to the core of an element,

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and so I'm going to select this one.

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And so I'm going to just double click on that.

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And I am going to just measure between these two,

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and there we go, and we have a dimension.

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And again, like everything else,

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dimension tools have a lot

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of different options within them

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but it's a good place to start with the favorites.

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The favorites that Graphisoft has provided

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is a good way to start.

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And then let's just look at the text tool.

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So if you wanted to add some text,

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you can easily just double click on that.

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And then you can create a text box,

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by creating a box

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or you can just double click and start typing.

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So we'll just say adjacent property.

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And there you go.

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So we'll talk about these tools

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in a lot more detail as we progress through the course.