From the course: AutoCAD Raster Design Essential Training
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Adding primitives - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Raster Design Essential Training
Adding primitives
- Back to Primitives again. This one's a little more automatic. Actually, it's a lot more automatic. Once you see how this one works, you're going to wonder why you use any of the other tools. What happens here is we choose a Primitive we want from the drop down list. A line, an arc, a circle and so on. Select the Raster entity and watch this, it magically gets converted into AutoCAD linework. So to get started, let's jump into AutoCAD. On Get Started, let's click on Start Drawing. Now, let's go to Insert. Let's grab First floor Area B. Let's click Open. Now let's click Next. Next, and then Finish. Okay, let's zoom in over here. I'm going to pick on a circle first. I want it to be an actual circle. On Vector & Recognize Text, on the Primitive drop down, select Circle. I'm just going to pick a point anywhere on the circle. Hit Enter and Enter again. And voila! It's an actual circle. I'll be... Let's do a couple more. I'm going to come over to one of these arcs and click my Primitive…
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