From the course: AutoCAD 2020 Essential Training
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Points and donuts - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2020 Essential Training
Points and donuts
- [Instructor] We're staying in our DrawingMoreObjects.dwg file, and we're going to be looking at points and donuts in AutoCAD. Now you may think to yourself, he just mentioned donuts in AutoCAD. Yes, you can draw donuts in AutoCAD, and they are a donut shaped object with a hole in the middle, exactly like a donut you might consider consuming while sitting at your desk. Now, what we're going to do, is we're going to utilize the points first, then we're going to look at donuts in AutoCAD at well. Just before we do that, make sure you're on the appropriate drafting layer, so we need to be on our A setting out layer. So we jump up to the layer dropdown, and we make sure that we've got the A setting out layer as the current drafting layer. Then we need to set our point style, that's on the home tab on the ribbon, in the utilities panel, and there's point style there. Four little dots and a paintbrush. Click there, and the point style dialogue box appears. Now you need to set a point style…
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