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>> Chapter 21, specifying
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three-dimensional
coordinates.
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In this chapter,
we're going to work
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on understanding
3D drawing,
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working with the
3D coordinates,
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and working with the
elevation and thickness,
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creating a custom
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User Coordinate System
for 3D drawing.
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Before, we were
working always in
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the x and y space or axis.
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In this chapter, we
are adding z-axis.
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In this Figure 21.1,
as you can see,
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on the left image is
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a top view or floor
plan of a building,
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and the right view
is a perspective.
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Working in three-dimensional
environment.
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So either you can open
a template file as
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acad3D or you can change
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the workspace to
three-dimensional space.
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Here on AutoCAD,
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there is a workspace
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and next to the
Quick Access view.
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Drafting annotation,
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it means two-dimensional
drawing.
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Switch that one
to 3D modeling.
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You can see the panels
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and ribbons are changing.
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If you don't have
a workspace,
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you can find this
drop-down arrow
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and look for
the workspace.
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We are now in the
3D modeling space.
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Under view, you can
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see viewport toolbars
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and unsaved view,
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or you can see in
the isometric views;
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Southwest isometric,
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Southeast isometric,
Northeast isometric.
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Click on that one. We are
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on the Northeast
isometric.
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And even the view cube,
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you have a chance to
switch the views.
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In the 3D modeling,
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I'm going back
to Home tab,
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we have three types
of modeling; solid,
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surface, mesh,
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and we are planning
to work on the
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solid and mesh
in this class.
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Under Home, we have
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x and y and
additional z-axis.
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Now we are on the World
Coordinate System.
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For example, if I draw
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a box and change
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the visual style
conceptual,
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I'm going to change
the coordinate.
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Here under the tab, there
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is a coordinates panel.
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If I change the
coordinates to the front,
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can you see the
difference on
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the direction
of the x-axis,
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and y-axis, and z-axis?
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So that's how we
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are changing the
coordinates,
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and it's called User
Coordinate System.
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Switching to the right,
under Coordinates,
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I'm going to change the
coordinates to top.
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So top is like
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a World Coordinate
System for us now.
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So the origin is
changing every
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time. One more time.
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Front, you can
see the x, and y,
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and z-axis,
right, x and y,
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and z-axis, and left,
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top,
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and the bottom.
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So why do we need access
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to change the coordinates?
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The reason that
we need to change
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the coordinate
is, for example,
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if I'm planning to draw
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something on
the left view,
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from the Home tab
drawing panel circle.
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When I move my mouse,
on the left view,
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I have a chance to
draw that circle
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exactly on the left view.
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I'm going back to World
Coordinate System.
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I'm changing the
visual style
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to 2D wireframe and
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now we are going
to start working
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on Exercise
AB21-A DWG file.
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So from Canvas,
please download
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a File AB21-A and
open that file.
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And also from the book,
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you can see the
steps for drawing
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the
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3D coordinates,
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using 3D coordinates.
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So I'm going to
follow the steps
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from this book
on Page 664.
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On desktop, I
created ENT 135.
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So here I have my DWG
Bible book drawing.
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There's AB21-A here.
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I'm going to open
File AB21-A.
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It's an empty file.
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So I'm going to
save as this file
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back to Assignment
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21A-01.
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Steps using 3D
coordinates.
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Open File AB21-A DWG
from the Canvas site.
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This exercise, assume that
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you have a dynamic
input turn
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on set to the default
of relative coordinate.
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The drawing used
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a two-dimensional
environment.
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It looks like
three-dimension environment.
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So I'm going back
to two-dimension.
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Save it as AB21-1 in
your assignment folder.
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Choose a home type,
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drawing panel rectangular,
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and create a rectangle.
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Start a rectangle
comment at
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the specifying first
corner rectangle.
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Type 0,
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0, 19.
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Press "Enter".
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At the specified
other corner type
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39, 15, "Enter".
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This creates a
rectangle 39 units
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by 15 units wide.
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That is 19 units above
the x and y-plane.
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Notice that you omit
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the z-coordinate for
the second corner.
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Choose a home tab,
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modify panel,
copy to start.
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We're going to copy
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the rectangle two units
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above the original
rectangle.
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So select the rectangle,
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select object,
press "Enter",
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and type 0,
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0, 2, "Enter".
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Press "Enter" to get
out of the command.
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You have two
rectangles but
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because you are
looking from
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top, you see only one.
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So we are going to
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Home tab view panel
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3D navigation
dropdown list
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and choose Southeast
isometric.
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Now you can see
two rectangles.
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If object snap is
not turned on,
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click on the
"Object Snap".
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Remember object snap?
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Set the running object
snap to endpoint.
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I'm going to turn off
the rest of them.
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Start the line command
and check on here.
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We should be following
Figure 21.6.
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I'm in the Step 7,
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going back to our
figure drawing.
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Start Home tab line.
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From Point 1,
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pick endpoint at Point 1.
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So second point or
specifying next point,
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type pound, 0,
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0, 0, "Enter".
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Specifying next point, 1,
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0, 0, "Enter".
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Specifying next point, 0,
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0, 21, "Enter"
and "Enter".
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We need to copy
these three lines.
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Press "Enter".
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From the endpoint,
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type 38, 0, 0, "Enter".
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Means 38 units
to the right.
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I can just copy
those two legs all
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the way to the extraction,
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to the y direction to
back of the table.
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So copy. Either I
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can just copy
from here to here
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or I could just add 15 for
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the coordinates
and it would
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copy the legs all
the way to the back.
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Actually, it's
a piano bench.
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To draw an open cover
for the piano bench,
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we need to start a
line again, line.
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Start at the
endpoint at Point 2.
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Here is a Point
2 from the book.
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And specifying next point,
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type 15 with the angle of
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90 and the angle
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of 45. Press "Enter".
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And turn on the
Ortho mode or F8.
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Make sure you go
straight all the
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way and type 39,
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is the same way of
drawing a line.
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And also, you
can all the way
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down and close this door
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by finishing with
the endpoint
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of the left corner or
Point 3 from the book.
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The last line is going
to be the bracing.
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This line. So you're
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going to have to
start the line.
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Starting point is
going to be Number
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4 to Number 3,
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or you can use coordinates
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of 15 with the
angle of 20,
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2 as a z-axis.
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Press "Enter". As you see,
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our drawing is in the
three-dimensional view.
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Don't forget to
save your file.