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Setting your limits

Setting your limits - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Setting your limits

- [Voiceover] We're staying in our 02_ModelspacePaperspace.dwg file, and you'll notice I'm back in the Model Tab. Now, one of the things that you do set in your Model Tab when you're working with any drawing is what is known as your grid limits, or drawing limits. These are set using the Limits Command. And what you do is you set a group of coordinates within the Model Space itself. Now, the Model Tab, or Model Space, is infinite, and it's based on an X and Y coordinate grid, that just goes on forever, where X and Y intersect at 0,0. If you look in the bottom left corner of the drawing area, you can see the X and Y there. That is known as your UCS Icon, or Universal Coordinate System Icon. Now, sometimes people call it universal. It is also the User Coordinate System, because you can change it accordingly. And the whole idea there, is you set up your limits, and you're using the User Coordinate System to your advantage. It is often sometimes known as the Universal Coordinate System as…

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