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Using Divide and Measure

Using Divide and Measure - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using Divide and Measure

- [Narrator] Once again we're back in our modifying objects.dwg file and you'll notice that I've zoomed to the extense of the drawing once more by double clicking on the wheel of the mouse. Now what we're going to look at are the divide and measure commands in AutoCAD but before we do that there's a couple of little settings that we need to sort out first. The first one is that we need to go to a named view in our drawing. So let's do that first. Go to where it says top here in the drawing area and click and you'll get your preset views come up. Hover over custom model views and select reception, that one there. That will take you in towards the reception office here like so and we're going to be working on this wall that we created previously. Now we're going to change the layer that we're going to be using. So go to the layer drop down in the layers panel in the home tab on the ribbon. Thaw out the A SURV setting out layer by clicking on the snowflake and then click on it to make it…

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