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Creating a rectangular array

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Creating a rectangular array

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As powerful as the Polar Array command is, it represents only one type of array that we can create in AutoCAD. There is another. In this lesson, we're going to create a rectangular array. A rectangular array is perfect when you need to create copies in a pattern of columns and rows. On my screen I have a drawing that represents a banquet hall. If I zoom in in the lower-left corner, you can see that I have drawn a table, and a series of chairs. As a side note, if I select one of these chairs you can see that they were created using a polar array. I'm going to press escape to deselect these and then I'll zoom back out. I would like to fill this room with table and chairs. To do that I'll come up to the Modify panel and I'll open the Array menu, and I'll choose Rectangular Array. Note that I could also launch the command by clicking this icon. After launching Array, I'll select my table and chairs, and I'll press Enter. And you can see that AutoCAD has created a default array for me…

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