From the course: AutoCAD 2019 Essential Training
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POLAR and ORTHO - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2019 Essential Training
POLAR and ORTHO
- [Instructor] We're staying in the Geometry.dwg file. And this time we're going to look at our polar tracking and also a setting called ortho, or orthogonal. Now basically polar tracking, as I mentioned in the previous video, allows you to track by way of angles. Now what that means is, your polar tracking allows you to set default angles that you can draw your lines along, for example. Now the idea being is, if I want to draw some lines I can draw them using polar, which allows me to specify the angle that they want to be at, or I can use orthogonal, which ties me to the X and Y axes in the model space. So let me show you the difference of those two. Let's use polar tracking first. Now you'll find polar tracking down on the status bar. It's this circular icon here. And again, it's got its own little fly-out menu just like object snap has. And as you can see there I can specify the default angle. Now it doesn't just go to 45 degrees. That's the angle increments. So what we're going…
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