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Circles and arcs

Circles and arcs - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Circles and arcs

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- [Instructor] Not every object we want to draw is made entirely of straight lines, and not everything that is made of straight lines needs to be drawn one line segment at a time. AutoCAD has many other tools to get your geometry drawn quickly and accurately. We're going to start with the basic circle. I'm going to go to the Drafting toolset, and find the circle tool, here, and click. I can click to specify my center point, here, and now, as I drag my cursor out, we can look for a second point on the radius. We can also type in a specific value. As we can see in the dynamic input, it's asking us for a specific value. I'm going to type in 3.5 and press Return. There are a lot of options for creating a circle, however, based on the information that you have. What if you have the diameter of your circle and it's not something that's easily split in half for a radius? What if you don't know the center point? We have a few options. I can go back to the circle button and if we look closely,…

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