The POLYLINE command

- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our 17 underscore center lines splines dot DWG file, and what we're going to look at now is the polyline command. We're gong to draw a poly line. Now, polyline is a group of regular line segments joined together to form the one object, and we're going to use a very simple polyline to draw another small outhouse just to the right of our house plan, our ground floor house plan. Now, we're going to use this little area here, just inside the typography that we've already created.

So, go to your layer drop down on the layers panel on the home tab on the ribbon, and you want the A external layer there again, like so. Now, you'll notice the names of my layers are truncated a little bit. The reason for that is purely because of my screen resolution that I have to use obviously when I'm recording the videos for you. So, there's the A external layer. Make that the active layer, like so. And then again, use zoom. Get in nice and close to the space where you need to work. It's so much easier.

And I'm going to use this little, kind of, blobby area here to place my little outhouse, my second outhouse. Now again, you don't have to place it exactly where I am, but try and stick to the sizes that I'm showing you when you're creating the polyline that represents the second outhouse. Now, we're on the A external layer, and make sure down at the bottom of the screen that you've got your polar switched on here and your ESnap, and of course your ETrack as well. They're always useful when you're drafting in DRAFTSIGHT.

Now, the polyline command is up on the draw panel on the home tab on the ribbon. Now, if I go to this little fly out here, you'll see that there's line, infinite line, ray, or rich line. It's none of those, and that's where you would've thought it would be. It's actually in this one here. It's the next one down where the rectangle and the polygon are. There's the polyline command right there, and that creates a 2D polyline. Click on polyline, come into the graphics area, and it asks you to specify a start point. Now, I'm going to use my polar tracking for this because it's a little bit quicker and a little bit easier.

So, I'm starting here, and I'm going to click once and drag to the right. Going to type in two five zero zero enter, and that places the first part of my polyline. I then come vertically upwards, again, two five zero zero enter, and as you can see, I'm utilizing the polar tracking here big time. So, I'm going across to the left now, 12 50, and enter, and then I'm coming back down again here, using the polar tracking again, 12 50. And each time I use it, you'll notice I'm getting lovely, accurate lines as well.

So, another 12 50 off to the left there, and then last but not least, I can also, just like with the line command, I can actually right click now, bring up the context menu, and I can close my polyline to that first point. Now, you'll notice there if I hover over it now, it's actually all one object. It's a group of line segments, but they've all been made into a polyline now on the A external layer.