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Polygons and rectangles

Polygons and rectangles - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Polygons and rectangles

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- Let's take a look at 2 other tools that both create polylines, mainly the rectangle tool, and the polygon tool. I'll go over to the draw tools, and I'll find the rectangle tool here, along with the polygon tool. I'm going to choose rectangle, and then I'm simply going to click a point here out in space, and click another point here. If we look down at the command prompt, I had a ton of different options for creating that. So I want to go back into the command and I'm going to go ahead and press return, and let's take a closer look at what we have here: Chamfer, elevation, filet, thickness or width. I get an entirely different set of options after I've chosen my first point. I'm going to go ahead and pick a point here, and we can see that now I'm asked for the other corner point or the area, dimensions or rotation angle of the rectangle. I'm going to go ahead type in a for area, and press return. I'm going to give the area a…

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