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POLAR and ORTHO - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: Learning AutoCAD (2021)
POLAR and ORTHO
- [Instructor] We're staying in our geometry dot DWG file. And we're going to take a look now at some other geometry tools that are useful to you in AutoCAD. Now we've already placed our table here with its circular inlay. We're going to zoom into the area to the right of it. So get your crosshair about there. Roll a couple of notches up on the wheel, on the mouse. Just so we've got a bit of space there. If you hold down the wheel on the mouse, you'll see a little hand symbol appear, that's pan and you can just pan across by moving the mouse slightly. That allows you to get in nice and close to that area near our table that we've placed in the room in our drawing. Now we're going to look at polar and ortho now. Now, you'll remember that this edge of the table is 1,750 millimeters long. I'm using millimeters because I'm based in the UK and that's our standard method of measurement. If you're working, in say the USA, you…
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