From the course: AutoCAD 2016 Essential Training
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Circles
- In this video you will draw circles using a variety of different creation options. Let's begin with the Command Line Interface only. So, that we can focus on the command prompts. To do that, let's toggle off Dynamic Input. Then, go ahead and type circle, or at least a portion of the word and auto-complete will fill in the other letters. Then, hit enter. The command line says "Specify center point for circle." And that's what we're going to do. It also says "or" and it has a bunch of cryptic options that we'll get to later. But, the first thing is the circle needs a center. So, we can specify that by clicking a point on screen. Once we do that the command moves on to the next step. It says "Specify radius of circle". We'll do that also interactively. And, you can get really good feedback here where you can see that there's a dashed yellow line connecting the cursor to the center point and that is the radius. So, we're interactively specifying that length just by the position of the…
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