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Using Divide and Measure

Using Divide and Measure - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using Divide and Measure

- [Voiceover] As usual we're staying in the same drawing and as usual I'm zoomed extents to overview what we've actually done so far. As I said, zooming extents is a good habit to get into. Just do it every so often just to make sure that you can see what you've done so far. And make sure it looks OK from a distance. Normally in AutoCAD rule of thumb, if it looks OK from a distance, it'll look OK close up too. Now, what I've done in this particular exercise is placed one of our rubber plants here, you can just see it there, and a line there. We're going to look at utilizing the divide and measure commands in AutoCAD. Now what I'm going to do is zoom in on that area and all I'm going to do is put the crosshair over it, roll up on the wheel on the mouse, and just zoom in so that we've got a nice bit of clarity there, so that we can see what's going on. Now before I do anything else, I'm going to go to the utilities panel, and I'm going to go to Point Style. Make sure your Point Style is…

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