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Utilizing POLAR and ORTHO for accurate drafting in AutoCAD

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Utilizing POLAR and ORTHO for accurate drafting in AutoCAD

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our Geometry.dwg file, and we are going to stay on the layer that we set in the previous video as well when we created our table here. Now what I'd like you to do is just zoom into any area around the table you've created. I'm going to pan up a little bit and zoom in a touch here like so. I'm going to work underneath the table that we've created. Now it's up to you where you work in that space, but I'm going to work underneath the table that we created previously. I'm going to show you now how polar tracking and ortho in your drafting settings down on the status bar allow you to draft in different ways. We're going to create a square table using polar tracking. We're going to use a square table as well, but we're going to develop it using ortho as well. Now, polar tracking is down here on the status bar. And as I mentioned to you earlier, on the fly out there, you can select which angle increment you want to be using. So make sure it's still set to 90…

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