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Creating coordinate systems of your own

Creating coordinate systems of your own

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Creating coordinate systems of your own

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By default, AutoCAD uses what is called the World Coordinate System, or WCS for short. It's possible to create your own user coordinate system or UCS. It has a different origin point, or is rotated with respect to the WCS. You will create a UCS and draw objects using it in this video. Open the Mechanical sample file in the Chapter 06 folder. Let's turn on the User Coordinate System icon by typing Ucsicon+Enter, and then choose On. This represents the x and y axes, and this box is located at the origin point of the grid. If you click this icon, you can then move the UCS to a new location. I can move this down here and what I've done is I have moved the origin point, and I've created a UCS at the same time. Notice, though, that there's no longer a box around that point. That means I'm dealing with a User Coordinate System. The World Coordinate System was the initial one. So now we're working with something that's a little bit different. And so, at this point it doesn't really matter…

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