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Using POLAR and ORTHO for precise geometry

Using POLAR and ORTHO for precise geometry - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using POLAR and ORTHO for precise geometry

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our ground floor plan.dwg file. And in the previous video, we looked at how we could draw this rectangle and this circle accurately, using object snaps and auto snap. What I'd like you to do is zoom out slightly and just pan across to the next grid square, this one here to the left of where we've created this table. So we've got a nice big space there. Again, just zoom in nice and close so that you can see what you're doing. Now we're staying on the same layer here, so we're going to be utilizing the same layer, drawing another table exactly the same size, but we're going to utilize some different tools to do it. Now you'll notice down on the status bar, I mentioned our polar tracking. Now normally, I leave that on all the time. What I'd like you to do is click on the little fly out arrow there and make sure that it is set to increments of 90 degrees, like so. And what we're going to do, we're going to draw a closed polyline instead of using the…

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