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Creating points and donuts as reference points in AutoCAD

Creating points and donuts as reference points in AutoCAD - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Creating points and donuts as reference points in AutoCAD

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- [Lecturer] We're staying in our ground floor plan_rev2.DWG file, and we're going to take a closer look at points in AutoCAD and also donuts in AutoCAD. Now, don't get excited. The donuts in AutoCAD, you can't have them with coffee, unfortunately. They are a geometric shape that you can place within AutoCAD. So no need to rush out to your local coffee shop to get coffee. These are geometric donuts, not ones you can eat. Now, you'll notice we're still zoomed in, in the same place as we were in the previous video where we worked with the rectangle and the polygon. Select your polygon or octagon as you might want to call it. And obviously, it's selected there with the grips. Just right click and select move. I'm going to use that object snap there to move it. Left click on the endpoint snap. Move it using the endpoint snap. Click again. And there you go, moved it from one place to another using the move command. Now, we do go into the move command later on, but that's just a quick use…

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