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Rectangles and polygons

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Rectangles and polygons

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- [Voiceover] We're now going to look at rectangles and polygons in AutoCAD 2017. Now I did mention rectangles and polygons in the previous video where we looked at polylines and splines. A rectangle is a four-sided polyline, and a polygon is a multi-sided polyline. It's as simple as that. That's how they work basically. Now what we're going to do is we're going to have a look at rectangles and polygons using the same drawing, the 04_DrawingObjects.dwg file, which is open at the moment, but what I've done is I've placed some saved model views for you in the drawing again, so that you can utilize these to zoom into the view that we need to work in quickly. So, we go over to our view control. Click on the word Top like we've done in previous videos. Over to Custom Model Views and select the New Entrance View there, like so. Now that takes us to where the double doors are in the bottom right-hand corner of the building. That's the entrance where you come into the building. What we're…

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