From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 3 Editing and Organizing Drawings
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Automating calculations using the QuickCalc calculator - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 3 Editing and Organizing Drawings
Automating calculations using the QuickCalc calculator
One way to avoid errors is to always use a calculator to solve equations. Fortunately, AutoCAD has a fully-functional built-in calculator, that may just replace the one you have on your desk. In this lesson, we're going to explore the Quick Calculator tool. On my screen, I have a polygon. Let's see if we can recreate this shape. To do that, I'll move up to the Draw panel and launch the Polygon command. I will then enter 6 for the number of sides. I'll click over here on the right side of the screen for my center point. Since this is dimensioned from face to face, this must be a circumscribed polygon. Now, what's the radius of the circle? Well, the diameter is 8.78, so the radius must be half of that. Instead of trying to calculate that value in my head. When AutoCAD asks me for the radius of the circle, I'm going to press Ctrl+8. This brings up the Quick Calculator tool. This calculator works a lot like your Windows calculator, except it will apply the value to the active command. We…
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