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Lines, arcs, and circles

Lines, arcs, and circles

- [Instructor] We're staying in the Geometry.dwg file, and you'll notice I've left it in the previous state it was at the end of the last video, where we drew some lines using the polar tracking and the ortho settings. Now what we're going to look at now are actual objects that we might place on an AutoCAD drawing. In this case lines, arcs, and circles. Now the previous video you saw me drawing lines using the polar tracking and the ortho settings on the status bar. We're going to have a look now at the line command in more detail, and obviously arcs and circles as well, in a little bit more detail so that you get used to some of the more common components, or objects, that you would add to your AutoCAD drawing. So we're going to the Home tab on the ribbon, and in the Draw panel there you can see that we've got the line command. So I click on the line command, and I come into the drawing area and now you can see that my dynamic input is on, and it's prompting me for the first point of…

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