From the course: AutoCAD 2015 Essential Training
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Architectural project: Attaching a sketch
From the course: AutoCAD 2015 Essential Training
Architectural project: Attaching a sketch
In this video we will begin a drawing project that will put a lot of the things you've learned in this course so far to use. Open the floor plan sample file in the chapter six folder and you'll see that it's blank. I've already set the units to architectural and I created a layer which we'll get to later. Let's go ahead and attach an image of a sketch I made on a piece of paper. Type I M for image, and press enter. This opens the external references palette. Up here, open this menu. Rather than clicking on the icon, click on the arrow. And then choose attach image, and select this jpeg. Click Open and then set relative path and uncheck these three boxes so that the images are attached at the origin point with a scale of one, and with a rotation angle of zero. So, I made this rough sketch of a simple architectural plan, I took a picture of my phone and emailed it to myself. So you can do this sort of thing to sketch your own apartment or house where you're living and it will give you…
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