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Centerline - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Centerline

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- [Instructor] The other type of centerline tool available to you in AutoCAD in the annotate tab on the ribbon is in fact the centerline command itself. So we're staying in that 05 centerlines drawing, and you can see the center marks that I placed on the circle. We're now going to use the centerline command, which is in the centerlines panel here. There's centerline. And I'm going to select the first two lines that I want the centerline to go through. So if I select this line, then I select this line, there's the centerline that appears. If I do the same again; centerline, and do this line and also this line, you can see there's another centerline that appears. Now again, if I zoom in really close, you can see there's a tiny, tiny little extension there, just sticking out at the top of the rectangle. So I'll zoom back out again, and what I'll do is I'll select the centerline. Right click, and go to properties. And again, you've got the geometry. Can you see the start extension and…

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