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Using polar tracking

Using polar tracking

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Using polar tracking

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- In this video, we'll take a look at polar tracking and compare it with ortho. Start by drawing a line and turn ortho on down here on the status bar. As the icon suggests, ortho constrains your drawing to orthogonal, ninety degree increments. So if I draw a line here, I can only draw it horizontally or vertically. I can click points here without having to worry about the angle. I can just type in a distance, say 12, and press enter, and AutoCAD will draw it horizontally. If I move the cursor down in this direction and I type, 12, enter. It's going to understand that I want to draw it down because of the location of my cursor. So if I move the cursor over this way and I type 20 enter, there's no need for me to type in the angle because ortho is taking care of that for me. So ortho is used quite a lot because most objects that are manufactured have right angles, most buildings have right angles for the walls, and so this is quite handy. However, there are many situations where you will…

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