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Using Divide and Measure for accurate drafting in AutoCAD

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Using Divide and Measure for accurate drafting in AutoCAD

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- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our Office Layout_2.dwg file. We're going to take a look now at how we utilize the commands Divide and Measure to allow us to divide and measure geometry and place objects on that geometry along those divided and measured points. Now, in order to do that, we're going to change our layer here in the Layers panel. Home tab on the ribbon, Layer dropdown, make sure you're on the Nodes layer. Now, the reason that we're going to the Nodes layer is we're going to be using the Node Object Snap to divide and measure in a moment. Now, before we do anything else, we're going to go over to the Utilities panel and click on the flyout and select Point Style. Now, the default Point Style in AutoCAD is this little tiny dot, which, unfortunately, doesn't really help you when you've got it placed along a line in your drawing. So we're going to utilize a new Point Style. We're going to go with this one here. Looks a bit like a circle with a diagonal cross…

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