From the course: AutoCAD 2021 Essential Training
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Ellipses - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2021 Essential Training
Ellipses
- [Instructor] Once again we're staying in our drawing more objects.twg file. We're going to have a little look now at ellipses and how they can be utilized to draw furniture in your AutoCAD drawing. Little bit of housekeeping first, though. Let's unpin our draw panel here like so. That can go back into the ribbon. We'll also go to the layers panel now. We need to be on the layer that the furniture's on which is this orange layer here. So what we can do, we can utilize this command here which is make current. And it sets the current layer to that of a selected object. So I click on the icon and I pick on that sofa there and you can see now that I'm on the appropriate layer for the furniture. Not an easy layer to remember, which is A700MFFE. But we're on the right layer. What we'll also do, we'll go to the layer drop-down and the setting-out layer we'll freeze that for the moment so that we freeze the points and the donut…
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