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Using Polar Tracking - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2018 Essential Training
Using Polar Tracking
- [Voiceover] We're staying in the 06_DrawingAccurately.dwg file. And you'll notice I've left the background as white. And I've left the objects in there. The green lines, and the red lines, and the circles. And you'll notice that Grid and Snap are off. However, I have left Object Snap Tracking and Object Snap on down on the Status Bar. Now we're going to look at Polar Tracking. That's this one down here on the Status Bar. There's Polar Tracking there. Click on the arrow and there's the settings. And you can see all the different angle increments. And if I click on the Tracking Settings there, that takes me into the Drafting Settings Dialog, and allows me to work with the Polar Tracking Settings like so. Now, I'm going to close that for the moment. Just click on OK and leave the settings as they are. Polar Tracking allows you to work and draw to regular angle increments. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to zoom in here on the rectangle shape on the left. I'm going to get that nice…
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