Use inscribed polygons when you want to specify the distance between the center of the polygon and each vertex. This distance is the radius of the circle within which the polygon is inscribed. In this example, you draw an inscribed square, the default polygon.

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Isometric Snap/Grid mode helps you create 2D drawings that represent 3D objects, such as cubes. Isometric drawings are not true 3D drawings. They simulate a 3D object from a particular viewpoint by aligning along three major axes. If the snap angle is 0, the axes of the isometric planes are 30-degrees, 90-degrees, and 150-degrees. When you set Snap mode to isometric, use the F5 key (or CTRL+E) to change the isometric planes to left, right, or top orientations: Continue reading →

This post is an addition to the previous post I made about OSNAP. If you haven’t read it yet, you can check it out here >>AutoCAD OSNAP Command.  As I have discussed before, OSNAP is useful if you wanted to move an object accurately. By moving an object or a line for example to the endpoint of another line. Or if you want to move a circle and placing the center of the circle to the endpoint of an arc accurately, you need to use OSNAP. But what about placing the circle’s center only on the “Y” axis or vertical axis only ? What I mean to say is placing the center of the circle parallel to the end point of the arc (See Fig. 1). Continue reading →

This command simply changes the size of the object you created or from the existing object created by someone else. So to start, let us make an object, on this example, two rectangles that overlaps each other. To change the size or scale, first type “scale” on the command prompt and press enter. AutoCAD will prompt you to select an object. Select the two objects either by selecting the two with the selection box or windowing to select both. To window it, just type “w” on the command prompt and press enter. The AutoCAD will prompt: Specify first corner: pick the first point in windowing the object on the lower left corner of the two rectangles (see Fig. 1). Then drag the window to enclose the object and click the upper right corner outside the object then press enter. Continue reading →

On our past tutorial, we created polylines. Now we are going to edit them. The command used is PEDIT.  Which means polyline edit and the subcommands are [Close/Join/Width/Edit vertex/Fit/Spline/Decurve/Ltype gen/Undo]:. Now lets start.

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