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Place rectangles

Place rectangles - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Place rectangles

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- [Instructor] We also have a way to create and annotate rectangular objects in our 2D drawings. So let's locate that timber building column on our drawing, and we'll model a few pieces of furniture, just for fun. So in our skins, we can see there's a building column right here. Now we would want to make sure that's shown inside of our 2D floor plan. So it's very quick and easy to model that in place. So by coming across and using (mumbles) check on my AutoCAD Macros and making sure that you have your send 3D points to AutoCAD clicked. I'm going to come across to my building elements and I'm going to choose the rectangle function. So I wanted to show you a couple of ways but you can play with these and see what the different input looks like, again this is something that's just preference and depending on the views you have of the points. So I'll go through the basics, I'm going to go with indirect corner input. This is probably the simplest one. So I'm going to come across and look…

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