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Points and donuts - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2018 Essential Training
Points and donuts
- [Voiceover] When you're working in AutoCAD 2017, quite often what you want is a point marked on the drawing that allows you to place something like a setting out point. For example with the building we have here in the 04_DrawingObjects.dwg file, there will normally be a setting out point that the surveyor uses to obviously use things like survey equipment like lights, total stations, measuring levels and things like that. He'll measure those from a known point known as a datum. What you can do is you can set that up using a point, an AutoCAD point, and a point style, or potentially you can place what is called a doughnut, an AutoCAD doughnut. Now that's not something like a Krispy Kreme or something like that. It's actually a doughnut shape that you place on a drawing. Apologies for any of you that got excited thinking doughnuts as per Homer Simpson for example. Let's have a look at placing a point with a point style first. The default point style in AutoCAD is a little dot, and…
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