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  1. Chapter Objectives
  2. Chapter Objectives
  3. EXERCISE 3-1 Drawing a Rectangular Conference Room, Including Furniture
  4. EXERCISE 3-1 Drawing a Rectangular Conference Room, Including Furniture
  5. Making a Drawing Template
  6. Making a Drawing Template
  7. Polyline
  8. Polyline
  9. OFFSET
  10. OFFSET
  11. EXPLODE
  12. EXPLODE
  13. ID Point
  14. ID Point
  15. TRIM
  16. TRIM
  17. Rectangle
  18. Rectangle
  19. CHAMFER
  20. CHAMFER
  21. FILLET
  22. FILLET
  23. COPY and Osnap-Midpoint
  24. COPY and Osnap-Midpoint
  25. ROTATE
  26. ROTATE
  27. POINT
  28. POINT
  29. DIVIDE
  30. DIVIDE
  31. MEASURE
  32. MEASURE
  33. OSNAP
  34. OSNAP
  35. MIRROR
  36. MIRROR
  37. Osnap Modes That Snap to Specific Drawing Features
  38. Osnap Modes That Snap to Specific Drawing Features
  39. Running Osnap Modes
  40. Running Osnap Modes
  41. Osnap Settings: Marker, Aperture, Magnet, Tooltip
  42. Osnap Settings: Marker, Aperture, Magnet, Tooltip
  43. EXERCISE 3-2 Drawing a Rectangular Lecture Room, Including Furniture
  44. EXERCISE 3-2 Drawing a Rectangular Lecture Room, Including Furniture
  45. Making Solid Walls Using Polyline and Solid Hatch
  46. Making Solid Walls Using Polyline and Solid Hatch
  47. From
  48. From
  49. BREAK
  50. BREAK
  51. Polyline Edit
  52. Polyline Edit
  53. HATCH
  54. HATCH
  55. ARRAY
  56. ARRAY
  57. ARRAYEDIT
  58. ARRAYEDIT
  59. Distance
  60. Distance
  61. Exercise 3-3 Drawing a Curved Conference Room, Including Furniture
  62. Exercise 3-3 Drawing a Curved Conference Room, Including Furniture
  63. Polyline
  64. Polyline
  65. POLYGON
  66. POLYGON
  67. Grips—Add Vertex
  68. Grips—Add Vertex
  69. Grips—Convert to Arc
  70. Grips—Convert to Arc
  71. ARRAY
  72. ARRAY
  73. Exercise 3-4 Drawing a Conference Room Using Polar Tracking
  74. Exercise 3-4 Drawing a Conference Room Using Polar Tracking
  75. Polar Tracking
  76. Polar Tracking
  77. Polyline Edit
  78. Polyline Edit
  79. Specifying Points with Tracking
  80. Specifying Points with Tracking
  81. Drawing the Chairs around the Conference Table
  82. Drawing the Chairs around the Conference Table
  83. Completing the Conference Room
  84. Completing the Conference Room
  85. Using Command Preview
  86. Using Command Preview
  87. Choosing Selection Options
  88. Choosing Selection Options
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Polar Tracking

Polar tracking lets you specify angles at which to draw. Polar tracking is similar to Ortho mode, but unlike Ortho, polar tracking merely indicates your specified angles and does not force you to draw horizontally or vertically like Ortho does.

  • Step 7. Set polar tracking angles at 15°, as described next:

    polar tracking: A means of specifying points using your own increment angle.

    Prompt

    Response

    Type a command:

    Place your mouse over Polar Tracking on the status bar and right-click

    A right-click menu appears:

    Click Tracking Settings…

    The Drafting Settings dialog box appears with the Polar Tracking tab selected:

    Click the list under Increment angle: and click 15 (as shown in Figure 3-48)

    Click OK

    Polar Tracking (<F10>): Shows temporary alignment paths along specific angles of interest (for example, 15 degrees). Although the default increment for PolarSnap is 90 degrees, one can change it easily to 60, 45, 30, 15, and so on, as shown in Figure 3-48. You can use the system variable POLARANG to reset PolarSnap.

    Figure 3-48

    Figure 3-48 Set polar tracking angles

  • Step 8. Use the LINE command with direct distance entry and polar tracking to draw the inside lines of the conference room walls (Figure 3-49), as described next:

    Figure 3-49

    Figure 3-49 Measurements for the walls

    Prompt

    Response

    Type a command:

    Line (or type L <Enter>)

    Specify first point:

    Type 11′6,4′ <Enter>

    Specify next point or [Undo]:

    Turn ORTHO on

    Move your mouse down and type 2′ <Enter>

    Specify next point or [Undo]:

    Move your mouse to the left and type 8′ <Enter>

    Specify next point or [Close Undo]:

    Move your mouse straight up and type 20′ <Enter>

    Specify next point or [Close Undo]:

    Turn POLAR on (ORTHO turns off automatically)

    Move your mouse so that 45° shows and type 4′3 <Enter>

    Specify next point or [Close Undo]:

    Move your mouse so that <0° shows and type 2′6 <Enter>

    Specify next point or [Close Undo]:

    Move your mouse so that <30° shows and type 2′ <Enter>

    Specify next point or [Close Undo]:

    Move your mouse so that <0° shows and type 4′ <Enter>

    Specify next point or [Close Undo]:

    Move your mouse so that <330° shows and type 2′ <Enter>

    Specify next point or [Close Undo]:

    Move your mouse so that <0° shows and type 2′6 <Enter>

    Specify next point or [Close Undo]:

    Move your mouse so that <315° shows and type 4′3 <Enter>

    Specify next point or [Close Undo]:

    Move your mouse straight down so that <270° shows and type 18′ <Enter>

    Specify next point or [Close Undo]:

    Type C <Enter> (to complete the LINE command)

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