From the course: Learning AutoCAD (2020)
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POLAR (polar tracking) and ORTHO (orthogonal mode) - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: Learning AutoCAD (2020)
POLAR (polar tracking) and ORTHO (orthogonal mode)
- [Instructor] We're staying in our geometry.dwg file and you can see I've left it in the same state as it was at the end of the last video. We're going to now look at Polar and Ortho on the status bar in the geometry.dwg file. First of all, what we're going to do, we're going to select the lines that we created previously. Just simply get the crosshair over each one, click on it. You can press the Delete key on the keyboard or you can right-click and Erase on the shortcut menu. So we're back to our nice clean rectangle that we started with in the previous video. Now we're going to go down to the status bar. We're going to come down here to Polar. Polar should be on already. It's normally on by default. It's that one there. So if it's gray like that, click on it so it's blue, so that it's on. And you can see on the command line there it's now telling me that Polar is on. So if I click here on the flyout now, it will…
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