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The drawing area

The drawing area - AutoCAD Architecture Tutorial

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The drawing area

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- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our Floor Plan.dwg file and we're going to have a look now at the drawing area where we work in AutoCAD Architecture. Now that's this big space here where the crosshair is moving around and normally the drawing area tends to be in the model tab down here. So there's our model tab there. Now model space, the model tab, is infinite. I can carry on drawing forever, but I can actually set a thing called limits. So if I type limits on the command line there like so, and press enter, what that will allow me to do now is specify the lower left corner in Cartesian coordinates of where I want my limits to be. I'm going to leave that at zero and then press enter to confirm. And you'll see there that my limits now, my upper right corner, is at coordinates of five three 600 and four one 400. So that's roughly 53.6 meters and 41.4 meters. Because those units there are in millimeters. Now the…

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