From the course: AutoCAD: Using the Command Line
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Coordinate data entry using dynamic input - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD: Using the Command Line
Coordinate data entry using dynamic input
- [Narrator] We're starting another chapter now in our AutoCAD Using the Command Line course. And we're going to look at using coordinates in our AutoCAD drawings. So we got a nice new drawing for you. You can download it from the library from the website and it's called coordinates.dwg. Once you've downloaded it you can open it and use it to follow along with the videos in this chapter. You can see that the coordinates drawing is very similar to other drawings you've used throughout the course. So you can see there that we've got the doors the windows and the tables inside the little building. Now what this particular drawing has is a specific set of coordinates. So this particular corner here is actually set to a known coordinate and this corner of the table here is also set to a known coordinate. So the two bottom left corners have a given coordinate that is set up in the coordinate system in your AutoCAD drawing. Now we're going to enter some coordinates by drawing some lines. Now…
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