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POLAR and ORTHO - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: Learning AutoCAD 2024
POLAR and ORTHO
- [Instructor] We're staying in our geometry.dwg file, and this time we're going to take a look at polar tracking, known as polar and ortho, or orthogonal, as it's sometimes known. Now I'm going to zoom out slightly so I'm going to place the crosshair in the center of our table that we created in the previous video, and literally roll back on the wheel a couple of notches like that. And then I'm going to pan across, hold down the wheel on the mouse and pan across, and zoom in a little bit by rolling up on the wheel a couple of notches, to get into this space here. Use pan like that if you need to adjust slightly. But ideally you want the space between the table you've just created here and these chairs and tables here. This is sort of space here. Now what I'm going to do is create a rectangular table, the same size as the one we created in the previous video, this one here. So see that one's a polyline, 'cause we created…
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