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Drawing polygons

Drawing polygons - AutoCAD LT Tutorial

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Drawing polygons

- [Instructor] Once again we're staying in our TypicalDrawing.dwg file. And what we're gonna have a look at now is drawing polygons. Now we have touched on this in previous videos during this course, in getting started section, for example. What I'd like you to do is just keep one of the regular rectangles that are available in the drawing at the moment. So I'm gonna select this one, here, and this one here, and this one here, and this one here, and I'm gonna delete those. Don't need those. I just want one rectangle, like so. And just position it sort of off to the left a little bit. We're then gonna go to the Draw panel, and we're gonna create two circles. So I'm gonna select this Circle here, like so, click on the fly-out, Center Radius, pick a point there, click and drag to about the same size as the height of the rectangle. It can be freehand. It doesn't have to be exactly the same size. I'm gonna show you a neat little trick now. I'm gonna select this circle. Click on the edge of…

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