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The Pencil tool

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The Pencil tool

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- [Instructor] Chapter 03_02, we're going to be looking at this thing here, the pencil tool, in a little bit more detail. First up, I'm going to explain this sheet. It's got a grid associated to it, and if I right-click, we can see that we are object snapping and grid snapping. There's also an option to hide the grid. But I'll leave it visible for now. So Mac or Windows, we both use the file menu, and then down to Document Setup. And under the grid option, we've got Show Grid. And then there's a Major Grid of 6 mil spacing, that's a quarter of an inch, and the subdivisions are set to one, so we can see the jump between each of the intersections of the grid. That's really the reason for this. I'll click Close. And then choose the pencil tool, and then we can see it jumping from the various intersections. So when you use the pencil tool, you click to create a line, or the start of a line. And then, whether it's vertical or horizontal, you get the red sort of marker and the green marker.…

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