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Points and donuts

Points and donuts

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Points and donuts

In this video I'll discuss points and donuts, both create dots on the screen. Points are single pixels and donuts can have a larger size. Type PO for point and this command has no options, you simply specify a point. And you have a single pixel on the screen there. I'll do that again, I'll press enter to repeat the command and simply click a point. These can be useful as placeholders. They specify these positions. I could later on perhaps draw an arc between them. To do so. I'll use the arc tool in the default three point mode and I'd like to snap to that point. I'll hold down Shift and right click to access the object snap menu. And if you want to snap to a point object, you have to use node snap. That's shown there in green. I'll click right there. And the first point of the arc snaps precisely to that point. I'll press F8 to turn off ortho. Click the second point of the arc here. And the third point of the arc I want to click right on that point. So I'm going to hold down shift and…

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