- Chapter Objectives
- EXERCISE 3-1 Drawing a Rectangular Conference Room, Including Furniture
- Making a Drawing Template
- Polyline
- OFFSET
- EXPLODE
- ID Point
- TRIM
- Rectangle
- CHAMFER
- FILLET
- COPY and Osnap-Midpoint
- ROTATE
- POINT
- DIVIDE
- MEASURE
- OSNAP
- MIRROR
- Osnap Modes That Snap to Specific Drawing Features
- Running Osnap Modes
- Osnap Settings: Marker, Aperture, Magnet, Tooltip
- EXERCISE 3-2 Drawing a Rectangular Lecture Room, Including Furniture
- Making Solid Walls Using Polyline and Solid Hatch
- From
- BREAK
- Polyline Edit
- HATCH
- ARRAY
- ARRAYEDIT
- Distance
- Exercise 3-3 Drawing a Curved Conference Room, Including Furniture
- Polyline
- POLYGON
- Grips—Add Vertex
- Grips—Convert to Arc
- ARRAY
- Exercise 3-4 Drawing a Conference Room Using Polar Tracking
- Polar Tracking
- Polyline Edit
- Specifying Points with Tracking
- Drawing the Chairs around the Conference Table
- Completing the Conference Room
- Using Command Preview
- Choosing Selection Options
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Polyline
polyline: A continuous line or arc composed of one or more segments, the width of which can be changed.
Begin by drawing the conference room walls using the Polyline command. A polyline is different from a regular line in that regardless of the number of segments that make up a polyline, AutoCAD treats a polyline drawn with one operation of the Polyline command as a single entity. This is especially helpful when you are drawing walls, because after you draw the outline of a single room or entire building, you can offset the entire polyline to show the thickness of the walls.
POLYLINE |
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Ribbon/Panel |
Home/Draw
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Draw Toolbar: |
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Menu Bar: |
Draw/Polyline |
Type a Command: |
PLINE |
Command Alias: |
PL |
Step 4. Use Polyline to draw the inside lines of the conference room walls (Figure 3-4), as described next:
Figure 3-4 Draw the conference room walls
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Prompt |
Response |
Type a command: Specify start point: |
Polyline (or type PL<Enter>) Type 5′,5′ <Enter> (You have just entered absolute coordinates; the polyline starts 5′ to the right on the x-axis and 5′ up on the y-axis.) Set ORTHO on (press <F8> or click ORTHO) |
Current line-width is 0′-0″. Specify next point or [Arc Halfwidth Length Undo Width]: |
Move your mouse to the right and type 15′ <Enter> (direct distance entry) |
Specify next point or [Arc Close Halfwidth Length Undo Width]: |
Move your mouse up and type 22′ <Enter> |
Specify next point or [Arc Close Halfwidth Length Undo Width]: |
Move your mouse to the left and type 15′ <Enter> |
Specify next point or [Arc Close Halfwidth Length Undo Width]: |
Type C <Enter> |
Undo
The Polyline Undo option is similar to the LINE command. If you do not like the last polyline segment drawn, use the Undo option to erase it and continue with the Specify next point or [Arc Close Halfwidth Length Undo Width]: prompt.
You can enter any of the capitalized options in the Polyline prompt by typing the letters in either upper- or lowercase, or you can simply click the option in the command-line window. The remaining options in the Polyline prompt are described later in this chapter.