Create void forms

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And here we can see that we have some solid forms

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and we will create some void forms to cut away from them.

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First, we'll use a void form to create an opening in the side of the building here.

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And to do this, I'll first open up the level one floor plan view.

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Now from the create ribbon on the draw panel here will enable the line drawing tool

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and this will default to be model lines

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and we can see we have a placement plan of level one.

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Now in the view,

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we'll step to this middle reference plane here just outside of the building

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and then we'll sketch across to the right hand side and type in a distance of 40 ft.

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And then we'll sketch vertically up until we get the alignment

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with the existing edge of the model and snap to this.

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And then we draw across to the left hand side and type in a distance of 80 ft

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and that will come vertically down to a line with our first line

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and then we'll click to create an enclosed shape.

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So I haven't got that drawn. I'll click, modify to finish the draw line tool

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and then we'll swap back to the 3D view.

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And now we can see we have that closed shape sitting

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there on level one at the bottom of our building.

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So to create a void form, we'll select these lines

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and then from the modify lines, ribbon tab on the form panel

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under the create form tools, we'll click void form

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and straight away, we can see that that gets extruded into a 3D box.

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And we can tell it's avoid by the transparent orange color.

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And as soon as I click off with this to deselect it,

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we can see that it cuts away from the solid object that it was overlapping

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to leave us the opening that we're looking for

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the void is still in place.

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So if I come over to the edge here and

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start to press the tab key

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to cycle through the different objects,

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we can see that that void gets highlighted and we can click to select it.

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We won't make any changes.

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I'll just click off and then straight away,

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we can see that that opening comes back as the void starts cutting again.

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Looking at the levels in the project,

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we can see we have level two here and we'd like the top of the void to align with that.

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So to do this, we'll use the align tool.

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So from the modify ribbon on the modified panel here, we'll click the align to

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and then we'll select level two as the reference to align two.

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And then we can pick the top of the void or the underside of the opening here

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and it will move down to a line to level two.

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We'll click to close the padlock

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which will create an alignment constraint between the top of the void and that level

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meaning that should the level move in the future,

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then the top of the void and the other side of the opening will also move.

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Now panning around here,

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we want to create

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another insert on the end of the building here.

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And to do this,

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we draw some lines that are hosted on the face at the end.

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So we'll go up to the modify ribbon tab and from the draw panel,

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we'll click the rectangle tool.

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We can see that that will enable model lines.

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Now we need to make sure that we have drawn face clicked

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as this then means that as we go over the model, we can see faces being highlighted

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and the highlighted face would then be the host for those lines.

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So before I draw, I'll go up to the options bar and we'll set an offset value of 2 ft.

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And now coming into the view here, we'll hover over the face at the end

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and then we'll get the end point at the top left corner.

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Now as we draw, we can see, we have the rectangle being drawn on that face.

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The offset is to the outside.

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So I'll use the space bar and a keyboard to flip it to the inside.

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And then we can snap to the bottom right corner to draw the rectangle.

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So now that's drawn, I'll click, modify to finish drawing rectangles

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and I'll come back and select an edge here on this face.

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We can see that if I use the 3D drag controls here and drag this out,

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then those lines will follow with it

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because they're hosted by that face.

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I'll go up to the quick access tool bar and click undo to undo the change we just made

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and that will turn these lines into a void form. So

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with them selected, we'll go out to the modify lines, ribbon tab

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and on the form panel here under the create form tool, we'll click void form

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and this will then be extruded back into the solid shape that's hosting it here.

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And if I click off of this,

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we can see we have quite a deep recess into the solid form here.

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We'd like to get rid of the bottom ledge here

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and to do this, we'll use the align tool.

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So from the modify ribbon tab on the modify panel, we'll click the align tool.

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Now we'll go over the edge here and we may need to

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use the tab key to select the underside of the solid.

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And then we can click on the underside of the void object here.

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And then as the void is now aligned with the bottom of the solid.

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It will cut right through that.

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So click, modify to finish the align tool.

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I would like to adjust the depth of the reset here as well.

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So we can select the back face

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and we can see that this does have the 3D drag controls that we could use. But

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we'll edit the temporary dimension here and we'll change this to be 6 ft.

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And we can see now that's created the recess that

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we're looking for in the end of our building here.

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Looking back round at the opening side here,

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we'd like to create some kind of canopy that follows around the edge of the opening.

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And to do this, we first need to draw the shape of the canopy to follow the edge.

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So I'll go to the level one plan view

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and now we need to be able to get this accurately

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and to see where the edge of the opening is.

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So from the view control bar, we click on the visual style tools here

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and we'll stop it from shaded to wire frame.

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And now we can see through that including where the

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opening is and we can now sketch that accurately.

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Now from the modify ribbon on the draw panel,

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we'll click on the line tool to draw two D model lines.

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And now we can first snap to the corner of the opening

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here that we have and we draw vertically down by 10 ft,

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we then draw across to the right here by 2 ft

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and then we'll come vertically back up and we'll snap

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to the edge of the existing solid form here.

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And then we'll come across and snap to the end of

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the first line that we drew to create that enclosed shape.

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So I haven't got the lines drawn, I'll click, modify

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and then swap back to the 3D view.

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And we can see those lines down at level one just by the edge of the opening. Here,

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I would like to sweep these around the edge of the opening to create the canopy.

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And to do this, we need to select the edges of the form that create that opening.

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So if I put my mouse over one of the edges here

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and start to press the tab key on the keyboard,

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we can cycle through all of the objects until we have that one edge highlighted

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and then click to select it.

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And now

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we need to repeat this for the remaining three edges. So

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we'll hover near the edge here

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and press and tab until it highlights.

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And this time,

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we need to make sure we hold the control key down to add it to our selection.

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And then once again, we'll do this with this edge.

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So hovering over pressing tab and then holding control to select.

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And then finally, for the last edge here, we'll

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tap through and help control to select,

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we also need to have the shapes that we've just drawn, selected.

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So again, holding the control key down, we can click on this now

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and that we can head up to the modify lines, ribbon tab.

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And from the form panel here, we can click to create a solid form

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and then that two D shape will be swept

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around the edges of the void there that we've created

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to give us the canopy that we're looking for.

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And finally earlier in the video,

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we created an alignment constraint between level two and the top of the void.

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So if I now select level two,

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you can see we've got a temporary dimension here and it's currently 15 ft.

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So we'll click on this and I'll change it to be 20 ft.

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And once that's applied, we can see level two move up, but also the opening moves up

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and the canopy with it

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as that canopy is created by the edges of that opening.

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And that now finishes creating the voice that we need for this model.