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Working with coordinates

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Working with coordinates

- [Voiceover] As you can see, we're staying in the 06_DrawingAccurately.dwg file. I've left it in the same state as it was when we were in the previous video. You can see there that we've got grid and snaps still on and you can see the green objects that were drawn in the previous video as well. What we're going to do now is we're going to work with coordinates within AutoCAD 2017. Now, I'm just gonna come down here to the Status bar, and I'm gonna switch off grid, and I'm gonna switch off snap. We don't need them anymore because we're going to be working with coordinates. Now, you'll notice as I move the crosshair around, you can see that there's a group of coordinates there on the Status bar that are updating constantly as I move the crosshair. Now, those coordinates are relating to a coordinate grid that relates to that X and Y in the bottom-left corner. Imagine X and Y there are intersecting together at 0,0. The whole idea is those coordinates reading out on the Status bar at the…

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