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Creating lines, arcs, and circles quickly and effectively

Creating lines, arcs, and circles quickly and effectively - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Creating lines, arcs, and circles quickly and effectively

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- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our GND Floor Plan.dwg file. And in this video we're going to take a deeper dive into lines, arcs, and circles. Now you'll notice at the moment we're zoomed in where we created our little rectangular table earlier in the previous video. What I'd like you to do is double-click on the mouse wheel to zoom to the visible extents of the objects in the drawing. Now you'll notice on the right-hand side of the building, there's a doorway here about halfway down. Using zoom and pan, get yourself into a space that looks a bit like that. So that door is kind of central over here, but you can see this grid line and you can see this grid line. Then jump up to the Layers panel and click on the Layer dropdown. You're looking for a layer that ends in the word site, S-I-T-E, it's green, that one there. So we're now going to place a rectangular group of site lines ready for a landscaping area so that when people come out of this door, there's an area for them…

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