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Using Grid and Snap

Using Grid and Snap - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using Grid and Snap

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- [Voiceover] We're now in a new section of our AutoCAD 2017 Essentials course. We're going to be looking now, at drawing accurately within AutoCAD. Now you may have noticed in previous videos, I've utilized things such as Object snaps. Now those are all part of your Drafting settings within AutoCAD, and what they allow you to do is draft accurately and effectively by snapping to particular points on the AutoCAD objects themselves. Now there's lots of other Drafting settings that you can use, now these Drafting settings are all available down here, on the Status bar. So you can see, there I've got things like Object Snap Tracking, Object Snaps. Over here to the left, I've got things like Snap and Grid. Now what we're going to look at first is the Snap and Grid, at the left-most end here of the Status bar. Now, you can see that we've got a new drawing open. What we're going to do is look at how Snap and Grid work. Now you will notice we are working in a very simplistic drawing. Now the…

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