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0:00For many architects and interior
0:01designers, the biggest drain on time
0:03isn't creativity, it's software. Every
0:06week, hours disappear into clunky
0:08workflows, endless file handling, and
0:10tools that interrupt your flow rather
0:12than support it. If you've ever lost
0:14half a day exporting drawings, hunting
0:17down usable DWG blocks, or trying to
0:19keep plans, presentations, and spec
0:21sheets aligned, you already know the
0:23cost of legacy CAD. In this video, we'll
0:26break down the top five Rayon workflows
0:28that will save you hours compared to
0:30AutoCAD. If this doesn't make you want
0:31to swap tools, I don't know what will.
0:34Check the link in the description to
0:35create your free Rayon account and use
0:37Rayon's [music] templates. Let me know
0:38in the comments if this made you want to
0:40swap or not and why. Now, let's get
0:42started.
0:46AutoCAD may be powerful, but its rigid,
0:48outdated structure no longer matches how
0:51modern designers actually work.
0:52Overwhelming complexity. Too many
0:55commands, layers, and settings turns
0:57simple tasks into a mental overhead that
0:59slows down even the most experienced
1:02user. [music] Disconnected tools and
1:04workflows. Designing in AutoCAD while
1:06presenting and styling elsewhere creates
1:08friction, wasted time, and unnecessary
1:10software costs. Outdated collaboration
1:13model, file-based sharing, exports, and
1:15version confusion make real-time
1:17collaboration nearly impossible. High
1:20costs and low flexibility. Rising
1:22subscription fees and rigid licensing
1:24make AutoCAD expensive, inflexible, and
1:27hard to scale with your team. Now,
1:30imagine a CAD tool designed around how
1:32people actually work today. That's where
1:34Rayon Design comes in. Rayon is the new
1:37gen web-based 2D all-in-one design
1:40platform built for interior designers
1:41and architects and anyone who works with
1:44spatial layouts, drawings, and
1:46documentation. From early concepts to
1:49detailed drawings, spec sheets,
1:50presentations, and mood boards,
1:52everything lives in this one
1:53environment. No jumping between tools,
1:56no broken workflows. Rayon is fully
1:59collaborative. You and your team can
2:00work together live, see updates
2:03instantly, and share projects through
2:05simple links. And up next, we'll walk
2:07through the top five reasons
2:09professionals are leaving AutoCAD for
2:10Rayon [music] and how making the switch
2:12is helping teams work faster, design
2:14better, and finally leave legacy
2:16frustrations behind. Okay, so what makes
2:19Rayon different? Beyond being agile and
2:21userfriendly, it's a one-stop shop for
2:23the entire journey from concept to
2:26completion. Here are the top five
2:28reasons that Rayon [music] will elevate
2:30your workflow. Number one, an all-in-one
2:33workflow. design, document, and present
2:35without switching tools. Traditional CAD
2:38allows drafting only, forcing you to
2:40switch software for ideiation, styling,
2:42and client presentation. Rayon [music]
2:44brings your entire workflow together
2:46from precise drawings to polished client
2:48ready visuals all in one place. [music]
2:51Seamlessly import and export DWG, DXF,
2:55PDF, and image files. Then redraw, edit,
2:57and refine without any friction. Combine
3:00technical accuracy with visual polish by
3:03customizing colors, textures, line
3:05weights, and typography directly in
3:07Rayon. [music] No extra design tools
3:09required. And share your work instantly
3:11with a single presentation link that's
3:13always up to date. So clients can view
3:15it any time without manual exports.
3:18Okay, so this is our template. Um, this
3:20is our one-off house. um that contains
3:24floor plans, elevations,
3:27we have our sort of design system, we
3:29have a variety of sort of milbert
3:30drawings. So I want to show you firstly
3:34these drawings are actually based on
3:35DWGs. So the DWG is brought in to um
3:40rayon. So we have a import button. We
3:43can import PDFs, DWGs.
3:45um they can obviously come into scale
3:48and then we have a layer system which
3:50will allow you to retain your existing
3:53um DWG layers um and then use the rayon
3:56tools to either um style those layers or
4:00draw over them um in using the rail wall
4:03tools zone tools. So I'll just show you
4:05that quickly. So all of our walls um are
4:08editable. They're based on styles. So
4:11styles is a big thing within real. And
4:13you can see here an exterior wall. I can
4:16go into this style. I could edit this
4:18style and say actually I want to change
4:20thickness. And you'll notice there all
4:22of those elements which are um pasted
4:25with that style will be changing. So you
4:27can see that there. Similarly with
4:29fills. So these are um pattern styles.
4:33So again we have a style here. I can go
4:36in I can edit that style [music] and I
4:38can change that to a solid, a gradient,
4:41um a texture or a hatch. So I could go
4:43in, I could change that to a hatch. And
4:46again, anything pasted with that style
4:48will update. To draw a wall, [music] we
4:51have the wall tool down here. Again, I
4:53can set my thickness. I can set that as
4:55a meter or I can change my units to
4:59millimeters.
5:01So you can see here I have my wall
5:04styles. Again, I can change
5:07the thicknesses and I can also add
5:10something called a zone. So, a zone will
5:12read the inside of those walls. It will
5:15create a fill and it will tell you the
5:17area. So, that's reading those four
5:18points. I can also name that zone. Um,
5:25and I can assign a color or a hatch to
5:30that fill. And I can also change the
5:32style of the text. So, just like you do
5:34with the walls and the zones, the text
5:36have a style as well. So, [snorts] I can
5:38change the size, I can change the color,
5:41I can change the font, and I can save
5:43that style as well. So, all very simple,
5:46pretty similar to what you're probably
5:47used to with AutoCAD, but the main point
5:50is that we're reflecting back styles. We
5:53can also use layers. So, here we have
5:55our layer tool. So, all of our different
5:57elements sit on different layers. So,
5:59our furniture, we have our zones, we
6:02[music] have our walls, and anything
6:04that's been imported will sit on an
6:06import layer. So, that's where your DWG
6:09um files will sit and they'll be
6:11embedded within those layers. And then
6:14within the floor plan, you can see these
6:16elements which are our blocks. Now, I'll
6:18cover blocks a bit more um in detail
6:20later, but in essence, we have our block
6:22library on the left hand side. This
6:24contains all of our um furniture
6:26elements um all the sort of features
6:29things like the kitchens the even you
6:32know people [music]
6:32things like that and they have front
6:34side um and top views so they're
6:37relevant for plan section elevation um
6:39and they all sit within the drawings and
6:43I can move them about as I see fit. They
6:47again have a style. So you know I can go
6:50into this definition and I can look at
6:53the line style and the fill style and I
6:55can change all of those as well.
6:57Alongside the wall types we can
6:59introduce things like openings. So
7:01openings will be things like doors and
7:02windows. Um so these will be uh placed
7:05within a wall and you can see there
7:07automatically cuts um an opening and
7:10that can be things for walls that can be
7:12things like uh windows and doors. You
7:16can see here we have a library of
7:17different windows and doors that we can
7:19use. Um and these can be adjusted as you
7:22um see fit as well. We also have sort of
7:24this the drawing tools. So line types,
7:27poly lines, circles, arcs, all these
7:30sort of traditional drawing tools. We
7:32have series of annotations and any
7:34annotation can be um reflected in a
7:37style. So again this annotation will
7:40have its own style. I can go in I can
7:42edit that. I can change, you know, the
7:44different elements. And any [music]
7:46um annotation that's um swatched with
7:48that style will update. And then we have
7:51our traditional editing tools like
7:53you're used to with um AutoCAD. So, you
7:56know, offset, fill it, mirror, shamfer,
7:59you know, even bucket tool that you can
8:01use to fill. Um [music] they're all here
8:03as well. And lastly, I just want to show
8:05you that we can change how we [music]
8:07view Rayon. So, if we go to preferences,
8:10I can turn on a wireframe view. So,
8:13that's something you're probably more
8:14used to um seeing in AutoCAD. So, we
8:17have our different line styles. And
8:19these are dependent on layers. So, the
8:21color is per layer. And we can also have
8:24um a grid put onto um [music] the
8:28drawing as well. And I can also change
8:31my units. So, I can have this in
8:33millimeters, centimeters, meters. I can
8:35change my area units. So, it's just as
8:38accurate as AutoCAD. I mean, my
8:40preference is always to have it in this
8:43more sort of presentation ready mode
8:44because you can see the fills, you can
8:46see the thicknesses. So, you're getting
8:48both, you know, the best of both worlds.
8:50So, you have the accuracy, but also you
8:51have that visual aspect as well. Number
8:54two, a built-in block library that works
8:56for you. [music]
8:57With traditional CAD tools, you're stuck
9:00hunting for blocks, importing files, and
9:02managing messy libraries. Rayon puts
9:05everything at your fingertips with a
9:06powerful in-app block system designed to
9:09save hours on every project. Access a
9:12shared cloud-based library with 10,000
9:14plus ready-touse blocks. Instantly
9:17searchable and reusable. Use block
9:19families that include top, front, and
9:22side views for your plan, sections, and
9:24elevations.
9:25Use smart and fast parametric blocks.
9:29create custom elements on demand with AI
9:32powered block generation directly inside
9:34Rail. Okay, jumping back into the model
9:37canvas, I'm going to talk to you about
9:38the blocks. So, as I mentioned before,
9:40we have these blocks already within our
9:43template. But if we jump to the block
9:45library, so within our library, we have
9:47a variety of different folders. So this
9:48is Rayon's library and it has things
9:51like bathroom elements, beds, bdays,
9:55coffee tables, you know, dining rooms,
9:57elevators, anything you would want,
9:59including symbols um and title sheets.
10:02So let's just have a look at um the
10:05basic blocks. And you can see here that
10:08if I wanted to bring in a sofa, I can
10:10literally click on that sofa and in it
10:12comes. Obviously, this is a plan view. I
10:16can also click in here and say open. Now
10:18there will also be within the rail
10:20elements a front and side view. So if
10:23I'm doing my sections or elevations, I
10:25know that if I bring in this sofa
10:28[music]
10:28in elevation and it could sit alongside
10:31my plan, these things align. It's the
10:34same style. It's the same sofa. It's the
10:36same size. So that's really, really
10:38powerful [music] in being able to draw
10:40both of those things at the same time.
10:43Again, this can be edited. So we [music]
10:45can go into this block just like a sort
10:48of family. I can edit the style. I could
10:51add, [music] you know, a color for
10:52example. I can change the line styles
10:55and I can come out of that [music] and
10:57then that will be updated. So I could
10:58make all of my furniture in these
11:00elements exactly the same. You can see
11:01at the moment there's this sort of gray
11:03tone to them. The other thing I can do
11:05if I brought in another element, you can
11:08see this little shape here is
11:11parametric. So let's bring that sofa
11:14back in. And one of the recent elements
11:16changes in Rayon is being able to adjust
11:18these parametrically. So this means that
11:22we can adjust the size of the sofa but
11:26without stretching it. So this allows
11:29the sofa to be adjusted parametrically
11:32so to fit your space um more suitably.
11:37And that's perfect. So I'll show you
11:38this nightstand for example. I can
11:40adjust the size of the table without
11:44stretching the lamp. So again, that can
11:46work really well. Um, and again, I can
11:49get that in front, side, and top views.
11:52So I can do the same thing for openings.
11:54So windows and doors. So let's take this
11:56door for example.
11:59I'll just place it into the wall. And
12:02then you can see here it has these
12:04little arrows. So, I can change the
12:07reveal [music] frame width of that door
12:10to fit the wall. I can also change its
12:12size. And you'll see that it's scaling
12:16rather than stretching. So, again,
12:18that's really, really useful for, you
12:20know, suiting my instances to its own
12:23situation. [music] So, I could justify
12:25it, you know, on the internal face of
12:28the wall. It will snap to the inside
12:30line and go from there. And again, I can
12:33go into that. I could change the styles.
12:36So, say for example, I wanted a dash
12:40to this. And now that updates all of
12:43those instances of that door. [music]
12:45And I can even save those block families
12:48to be used by other people within within
12:50my office. So, I can publish those. So,
12:52I can go to share, I can have share
12:55libraries, I can publish my blocks, I
12:57can publish my styles. So, anything I'm
12:59kind of setting up as a standard, um, I
13:01can publish those and they can be used
13:03by other members of my team. So, the
13:05last thing I want to show you is the AI
13:06tool when it comes to Box. So, we can go
13:09to the AI chat and I'm going to go to
13:12add files. So, this is a screenshot of a
13:15um, credenza that I was looking at
13:17[music] earlier um, that we could put
13:19within the living space. So, I've got my
13:21file and I'm going to go to go to tools
13:24and the AI tool allows you to do a
13:27number of preset things. So we'll
13:28generate image, generate tracing,
13:30generate product, stylize or create
13:32exonometric. So to generate a product, I
13:35can turn a product image or simple
13:37prompt into a CAD block. And that's
13:39exactly what I want to do. So I'm going
13:40to press that and then I'm going to
13:42press send. Rayon will be doing a number
13:44of things now. So you can see there it's
13:46removing the background, generating
13:48object representation. It will be
13:50drawing the top, side, and front views.
13:52And then it will be estimating its
13:54dimensions. So it will be doing all of
13:56those things just while I wait.
13:58And there we have it. So I've converted
14:01the image for a wooden cabinet into a 2D
14:03CAD block with technical top, front, and
14:05side views. Blocks ready to use in your
14:07CAD or architecture drawings. So you can
14:09see here I can insert the block family.
14:12Um or I can import one of the views. So
14:15let's say we're going to insert here.
14:19And there we have it. So that credenza
14:23could sit underneath the TV. [music] And
14:26if I was drawing a elevation of that as
14:29well, [music] there I have the
14:31elevation. So very quickly um and pretty
14:34seamlessly I have a representation of
14:36that furniture all from just downloading
14:38an image off the internet. And again I
14:40can go into this family and I can change
14:42the line style. So I could have it as a
14:44lighter gray so it matches the rest. I
14:46could add a fill. So I could say that
14:49actually this wants to be, you know, a
14:52certain color
14:55and then we go from there. Number three,
14:57turn drawings into data with smart
15:00properties and tables. Creating spec
15:02sheets in traditional CAD means moving
15:04to Excel or Google Sheets and then
15:06manually counting and constantly
15:08updating. Rayon connects data directly
15:11into your drawings so everything stays
15:12accurate and up to date automatically.
15:15Add custom properties to furniture,
15:17[music] symbols, surfaces, and other
15:19elements. Generate smart tables in just
15:22a few clicks, always synced to your
15:23drawings. Build FFN schedules, spec
15:26sheets, and material takeoff faster with
15:29real-time cost visibility and fewer
15:31errors. Okay, now I want to talk to you
15:32about tables and properties. So this is
15:35our um beach house template and you can
15:37see here it has uh an existing and a
15:39proposed floor plan, a number of
15:41different elements, pieces of furniture,
15:43interestingly an FFN schedule. [music]
15:46So I'm going to jump to our floor plans.
15:50Now first of all each of these elements
15:53um contains information. We'll start
15:56with the furniture for example. So say
15:58we're going to look into this chair. So
16:01this block, so this block instance
16:04[music] has a number of properties. So
16:06it has a material, a price, whether it's
16:09been approved by the client, yes or no,
16:11and a brand. [music] So say I want to
16:13add a property. So I want to click on
16:15one of these chairs, for example. Go to
16:17add a property and something like color,
16:21for example. It's a text element, which
16:23is fine. You can see it appear down
16:24there. Um, and I'm going to say this one
16:27is brown. Obviously with all of these I
16:31can go to here I can add that property
16:33back here which is now my tick list. So
16:35those properties exist across um those
16:38different blocks and then if I go back
16:40to my table
16:43you can see here I need to add a column
16:46to my table. So you can see here in my
16:49dropown it sees color and you can see
16:52the
16:54ones which are relevant. So again, I can
16:58then go into that's my brown one. I
17:01could say this one is blue, this one is
17:06green, for example. So that will then
17:09populate um and sit as a column within
17:12our table. And then exactly the same
17:14thing, I can then insert that table with
17:16[music] that new category included. And
17:19I can add that to any of these blocks.
17:21So I go to a different um chair and as
17:24long as I add that instance property and
17:26I tick I can say that one is purple and
17:31again if I go to my table you'll see
17:34that added there. So those are blocks.
17:36So each [music] of these blocks can be
17:38inferred with those different
17:39properties. Properties can also relate
17:42to zones. So this zone for example which
17:45is the floor of the living dining space
17:48it obviously has a fill. So, you know,
17:50it has a a visual appearance, so wood.
17:52Um, but it also has these different
17:54properties as well. So, we can add in a
17:56um price per square meter, what the
17:58material is, the lead time again,
18:01whether there's a brand, whether it's
18:02been approved by the client. And the
18:04really good thing is that because it's a
18:05zone, it will give us the area. So, we
18:08have a price per square meter, and we
18:10have an area, which obviously we can
18:12give a rate to. So rather than having to
18:14[music]
18:15um manually, you know, calculate areas
18:17and rates, we can have rayon do all of
18:20that for us, plot it all out in a table.
18:23[music] So for example, if I change the
18:25area of this. So I can double click into
18:27here, I can change this element that
18:32will change the area that will be
18:34updated in our table. Or even I could
18:36change the rate. So I could say this is
18:38you know €60 per um square meter and
18:41that will change it as well. [music] So
18:43let's show you the table. So if we jump
18:46over to our left hand side we have
18:47tables over here. So we've got material
18:49takeoff for example. Each of these
18:52different elements is obviously has a
18:53name. So if we look we've got public
18:56space which is here. You can see that
18:57that's highlighted because I've clicked
18:59on it. Um we have our area, our brand,
19:02our material, lead time, price per
19:04square meter. So [music] each of the
19:06areas within this drawing which are a
19:09zone. So the access we have its area
19:12what it is what material it is lead time
19:16price each of those appear in our table
19:20[music] and then I can insert the table
19:23into my sheet. So you can see here we
19:26have all of those elements and we know
19:28that they will be correct and up to
19:30date. And obviously I can put that into
19:32my drawing sheet for example. And I can
19:35do exactly the same thing with the FFN.
19:37So you can see here we've got an FFN
19:38table. We have even got a preview of
19:41what the thing looks like. So what the
19:43name of the of the element is, brand,
19:46[music] price, client approved, what
19:48that block looks like. And you can see
19:50when I click on it, it gets highlighted
19:53here. And I could go in, I could change
19:57the price. And you can see that updated
19:59there. And exactly the same, I can
20:02insert that into my sheet.
20:05I can obviously scale it.
20:08I've got my previews there. And I can go
20:10in and I can change the properties of
20:12those elements. So I could increase, you
20:14know, the size of the text example
20:17format there exactly how I want and make
20:19sure it's all up to date and calculated
20:21for me. And here's [music] one we made
20:23earlier. We've got our FFN schedule. And
20:27then in our paper canvas, [music]
20:30obviously I'm looking at a view of that
20:33from my model canvas. And that can sit
20:35on my sheet alongside some pertinent
20:38images of those pieces of furniture of
20:39the look and feel mood board. Perfect.
20:42Number four, collaborate with your team
20:44in real time. Traditional CAD workflows
20:46limit collaboration to one user at a
20:48time, leading to XREFs, sync issues, and
20:52constant version confusion. Rayon lets
20:54your entire team work together live in
20:56the browser, all on just one single
20:58source of truth model. [music] See edits
21:01and updates instantly as they happen.
21:03Comment, annotate, and tag teammates
21:06directly in the drawings.
21:08Share your block libraries, style
21:10libraries, and templates to standardize
21:12documentation across your entire team.
21:14Okay. Next, I want to show you how to
21:16collaborate. So, say this is my finished
21:19plan. If I want to send this to my boss
21:22or a colleague to review, um, I can
21:25share it within Rayon. So, let's go to
21:27share and I can put in their email
21:30address. So, I'll just use it with my,
21:32um, other studio email for example. So,
21:35I can click on here.
21:38I can press invite. Now, I can invite as
21:41an editor, as a viewer, or an admin. So
21:44I'll set as a viewer and [music] that
21:47will send an email to that address and
21:51then I'll be able to access it from
21:52there. So I'll just jump into that.
21:54Okay. So I've now logged in with my
21:56other identity. Um and I will go to
21:59shared with me. So models I can see here
22:02and then I can see that beach house
22:04model here. I can open that. I can see
22:07it here and [music] I can comment on it.
22:10So for example, say um I can measure. So
22:14I could measure an [music] element
22:16within the model space
22:18here.
22:20I could check a dimension. I could check
22:23an area for example
22:27here. Obviously you want to be doing
22:29that in the model space. So it's to um a
22:31one one scale.
22:33Or I can jump to the paper canvas and I
22:35can add a comment and say
22:40something like add storage colored to
22:45entry
22:46way.
22:48I could post that or I can add a sketch
22:53and say you know I want something here
22:56for example. [music] So that will be
22:59retained within rayon on that left hand
23:02side. um and my other self, so my
23:05previous self will be alerted
23:07>> [music]
23:07>> um to that. Okay, let's jump back into
23:10the other side. Um and you can see here
23:12I'm back in my original identity [music]
23:14and I want to jump down to comments. So
23:17you can see here Chris Simmons 6 minutes
23:19ago add storage cover to entryway. If I
23:21click on that, it will take me to the
23:23comments. So it's jumped from the model
23:25space to the paper space and you can see
23:27there I can see where it is, what it is.
23:30I can even see that sketch and I can
23:32respond. So I can respond in text. So I
23:35can say, "Okay, that's fine. We'll
23:38amend."
23:40I can even add a reaction. So I could do
23:44an okay. And the really good thing is
23:47that's all logged. So these can't be
23:48lost. There's a sort of track of sort of
23:50back and forth. So everything is there
23:53all within Rayon. And the other great
23:55thing is that more than one person can
23:57be drawing at the same time. So, I could
24:00be making those amendments here whilst
24:02somebody else is making a change to the
24:04rest of the document, which is really,
24:05really powerful. And number five,
24:07Rayon's builtin AI working directly on
24:10your drawings. Rayon is the only CAD
24:13tool with an integrated AI panel that
24:16enhances your drawings in real time.
24:18From generating aometric views from
24:20sections to turning handdrawn or scan
24:23plans into clean vector drawings and
24:25even creating custom blocks. This is
24:28what modern CAD looks like. Faster,
24:30smarter and finally built for the way
24:33designers work today. Okay. So now I
24:35want to look at the AI panel. [music]
24:37So in my left hand side there is AI
24:40chat. So what I want to do is I want to
24:42show you the section. So this is a
24:45section through um the beach house that
24:47we were looking at just now. Now first
24:49of all I'll just turn off the
24:50annotations, make the drawing nice and
24:52clean. So we'll jump back to our AI
24:54panel and to add content. So to add the
24:58image for example, [music] I want to add
25:00a screenshot. So the screenshot will be
25:02looking at my my model space and I can
25:05crop a window
25:08from here. [music]
25:09That then inputs it into the AI chat.
25:12Then I can go to tools and I can do a
25:14number of things. So as I mentioned
25:15before, we've got generate image,
25:16generate hasting, generate product,
25:18stylize, and generate axonometric. Now
25:21let's test out generate ax on aometric.
25:24So we'll click that and then we'll press
25:26send. That would then be looking at our
25:28section um and be generating an axo from
25:31that. And there we have it. So
25:34you can see that preview. I think that
25:37looks pretty good. So we can insert that
25:39very easily into our page and you can
25:42see there it's taken um a look at our
25:47section [music] extrapolated that
25:49understood the sort of depth the
25:51furniture that's being shown. [music]
25:53You know you can see the person you can
25:54see the umbrella. Yeah, I think that's
25:56pretty effective. So I can do a number
25:58of things with that. So I could click on
26:00that and I could do something like
26:02remove the background. There we go.
26:05So then I could overlay different
26:06elements and I don't have that
26:07background.
26:09Alternatively, I could do something like
26:11stylize it. So again, I could do edit
26:15with AI and I could do something like
26:17stylize, let's say, clay for example. So
26:20that will reference that image back into
26:22the chat, which you can see there. And
26:24I'm going to stylize that with a clay
26:26texture. There we go. Look at that. So
26:29again, I can insert that. You can see
26:31that it's kept the same, you know,
26:33exactly the same geometry. [music]
26:35And now we have that sort of, you know,
26:37that typical clay texture to the model.
26:40So rather than having the 2D line work,
26:42it has a texture to it. Again, I could
26:45come in there. I could remove the
26:48background, let's say. And let's test
26:50one more idea. So I could bring in a
26:53material, for example. So I could go to
26:55add files. So rather than add
26:56screenshot, we'll do add files. And I've
26:59got this timber texture.
27:02I can add this back into the chat. So
27:04you right click and you say reference in
27:06chat. And I can say replace clay texture
27:14with timber texture. Let's see how that
27:17gets on.
27:21Look at that. Again, I can insert it. I
27:23think that looks pretty good. You know,
27:25I can even do things like make
27:29image slightly
27:32brighter.
27:35So, it will adjust that as well.
27:40There we go.
27:42And I can insert that again. I can
27:46remove the background. [music]
27:50There we go.
27:52And so we have those those three
27:54elements. And the really good thing is
27:56not changing the geometry. So we could
27:58explore the model in different ways. And
28:01all of that is just generated from a 2D
28:03um section all very quickly all within
28:06the browser. Perfect. Rayon keeps
28:08everything designers value in CAD,
28:10[music] accuracy, structure, and control
28:13whilst eliminating the friction that
28:14slows teams down. With Rayon, you can
28:17produce and share drawings and
28:18presentations faster without jumping
28:21between tools. Use AI and smart data to
28:25automate repetitive work and stay in
28:27control of project details. Design and
28:30collaborate in real time. If you've been
28:33looking for a sign to upgrade your
28:35workflow, this is it. Check the link in
28:37the description to create a free Rayon
28:39account and try it for [music] yourself.
28:41Let us know in the comments what
28:42frustrates you most about AutoCAD. We'll
28:45show you exactly how Rayon solves it. If
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28:49more tips on modern design workflows.
28:52Thanks a lot and I'll see you in the
28:53next one.

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