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Creating rectangles and polygons quickly and effectively

Creating rectangles and polygons quickly and effectively - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD 2026 Essential Training

Creating rectangles and polygons quickly and effectively

- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter now, and we're going to take a look at some other drafting tools that are available to you in your AutoCAD toolkit. Now, when I say toolkit, AutoCAD is a toolkit of many different commands and features and functions that allow you to draft a model quickly, accurately, and effectively. So we're going to be taking a deeper dive into the rectangle command, and we're also going to take a look at the polygon command as well. Now we've got a new drawing for you. It's very similar to the one in the previous set of videos in the previous chapter. This time though it's called Ground Floor Plan_REV2. The REV2 stands for revision two, so it might be the second iteration of your ground floor plan, for example. Now you'll notice there's some extra bits. We've got some nice shiny new tables and chairs and things, but you'll recognize this landscaped site area that we created in the previous chapter. What I'd like to do is zoom in on it and get it nice and…

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