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Polylines, polygons, and splines

Polylines, polygons, and splines - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Polylines, polygons, and splines

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- [Instructor] We're staying in the same chapter now where we're looking at getting you started with simple drawing geometry. But we've got a new drawing for you, it's called polylines.dwg. Basically it's a blank drawing, it's all setup ready for you to go and there's nothing on it right now apart from the layers. Now the layers are setup because we're going to be looking at three different object types in AutoCAD which are polylines, polygons and splines. Now you'll notice if I go to the layers panel in the home tab on the ribbon and click on the drop down, we've got different layers for each of those objects. I'd like you to make sure that you are in the polylines layer first of all. So that you've got that as the current drafting layer. We're then going to go to the home tab on the ribbon which you should already be in anyway, into the draw panel and we're going to click on polyline there. Now you can just type PL or type P line if you want to for polyline but it's there to click…

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