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Finding the Geometric center

Finding the Geometric center

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Finding the Geometric center

- AutoCAD 2016 has a new type of object snap called geometric center. And this works on closed poly lines, which I've drawn here on the left. As you see I also have a circle on the right. Let's say we want to draw a line connecting the geometric center of the closed poly line with the center of the circle. Go to the line tool, hold down the shift key and right click to open up this object snap menu. Choose geometric center and position the cursor over the poly line edge and you'll see this geometric center icon appear which has these eight points. I can click right here to snap to the geometric center. Hold down shift and right click again and choose center and then click on the edge of the circle to snap to its center. And press enter to end the command. If I select the poly line and change its shape, obviously its geometric center is now in a different location. I can toggle on the running object snap mode, geometric center, notice that center is also running. Now I can draw another…

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