From the course: AutoCAD 2020 Essential Training
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Ellipses - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2020 Essential Training
Ellipses
- We're staying in our DrawingMoreObjects.dwg file. We're going to draw some ellipses now and we're going to utilize the ellipse command to place some elliptical tables in our area in the entrance hall, so you can see there's some furniture there already, on that sort of orange-y color layer. Now rather than go and try and work out what layer that is, there's an excellent command in AutoCAD that allows you just to select an object and make that object's layer current and it's this icon here in the layers panel in the home tab on the ribbon make current so I select it, select the object whose layer will become current, I click on one of the bits of furniture, and that becomes my current layer which is A700-M_FFE. Not that easy to remember so that match layer command is really quite useful way just make the object layer current. So, we're now on the right layer, quick and easily done and we need to use the ellipse command now to place some elliptical tables. So remember we placed our…
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