From the course: AutoCAD 2019 Essential Training
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Points and donuts - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2019 Essential Training
Points and donuts
- [Instructor] We're staying in our DrawingMoreObjects.dwg file. And as you can see, I've left the drawing in the same state as it was at the end of the last video when we looked at the rectangles and the polygons. What we're going to do now is just do a zoom extents, so you can just double-click on the wheel of your mouse and that'll zoom you out to the extents of the visible drawn objects. So you can now clearly see the rectangle and the hexagon that you've drawn for the rectangles and polygons part of this chapter. What we're going to look at now are points and donuts. Now when I say donuts that doesn't refer to any of these well-known coffee brands out there and things, it's actually a geometrical shape that you can draw within AutoCAD itself. And donuts are fantastic for setting out points on drawing plans. And you'll see that in a moment. Now just before we do that what we need to do is create a new layer. So we're going to go back to our Layer Properties in the Layers panel in…
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