- We're starting a new chapter now
where we're going to just look at some other drafting tools
available in AutoCAD.
We're also going to touch on some drafting tools
we've already used,
but obviously work with some different methods
of creating those particular bits of geometry
using those tools.
And you can see that we've updated the drawing a little bit,
you can see that our tables have chairs around them now
that we created in the previous chapter
sort of in the bottom left of the floor plan there.
Now, what we're going to look at is,
we're going to take a look at rectangles again,
but in a slightly different way
and also polygons as well.
Make sure you are using in the drawing,
the A700MFFE layer of furniture layer, that one there.
And what we're going to do, we're going to zoom in on this area,
the landscaped area that we created previously.
So zoom in first and get it sort of central on the screen.
Now I'm going to use rectangles and polygons this time.
And a polygon is a poly line,
but it's poly line with many sides.
So you can have hexagons, octagons, et cetera.
So using the furniture layer,
we're going to create a new rectangular outdoor table
and we're also going to create an octagonal outdoor table
as well, using a polygon.
Now, what we're going to do with the rectangle,
is we're going to place it near the doors here,
and we're going to have it sort of over here
horizontal, like so.
So I'm going to go to the rectangle command again
on the draw panel.
There's the draw panel on the home tab,
click on the fly out and select rectangle.
And what we're going to do,
we're going to pick the corner point
of the rectangle itself.
So I'm going to click like so, and drag like so.
Now this time I'm not going to use the Tab key
to tab between the distances.
I'm actually going to use the @ symbol, like so.
And I'm going to specify the other corner point
using coordinates this time.
So I'm going to go at @3500, 2000 like that
as if we're entering a coordinate,
why we talked about coordinates earlier.
I'm then going to press enter once, like so.
Now what you'll find is that just places
the rectangle like that.
Now what you can do, is you can do it in different ways.
I don't have to place it like that,
let's click on that rectangle, right click and erase.
Let's go back to the rectangle command again.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to come into this area again
and I'm going to pick the same sort of corner point there,
click but this time I'm going to right click
and select dimensions on the shortcut menu.
So now it's asking me for the length of the rectangle,
so that's in the X direction.
So that's going to be my 3500 enter,
and then it's going to ask for the width of the rectangle,
again on the dynamic input or the command line,
and that'll be two and then three zeros.
So it's still going to be the same size
but when I press enter now you'll notice,
I can now rotate the rectangle around the first point.
So I can place it in four different quadrants
where I want it to go just by moving the mouse around.
So when you get to that quadrant there,
can you see the top right quadrant?
Just left click once,
that positions our rectangular outdoor table.
Now we were going to talk about polygons as well.
I'd like you to draw a circle over here
in the top right area of the landscaped area
that we've got outside the building.
So draw panel again, click on the circle fly out
and just select center radius, like so.
And then we're going to come into the drawing area,
pick a point sort of about there,
I'm not too worried about exactly where and left click.
And then drag outwards,
and we want that to be 1700 radius like that
and then press enter to finish.
Now, the reason I've set a circle there
is I'm going to zoom in on that circle a bit now,
and we're going to place our polygon,
inside or outside the circle,
there's two different ways of doing it.
So we're going to take a look at the polygon command now,
again, it's on the draw panel on this fly out here
where the rectangle command is.
So there's polygon just there,
come into drawing area and enter the number sides.
We want an octagon which is eight sides,
type in eight and press enter,
and then it wants the center of the polygon,
that's why I drew the circle first.
So I just touch on the edge of the circle,
the center snap will appear,
or you can move into the center of the circle
and left click.
Now you've got two choices here,
there's actually three types of polygon.
There's also an edge type of polygon,
an edge polygon you can place just by selecting two points
along an edge, we'll do that one in a minute.
Now you can have an inscribed in circle,
or circumscribed about circle.
I'm going to do inscribed first and you'll notice,
it's inside the circle and I can come up to a point,
can you see there?
And when I touch on the circle, can you see?
It's placing it inside the circle like so,
if I just click on that polygon,
it's all one object like so,
I'm going to right click and erase it.
I'm going to go back to the polygon command on the draw panel,
I can just right click and go to recent input
and select polygon there if I want to as well,
number of sides will be eight again.
Center of polygon will be the center of the circle,
left click.
I'm going to circumscribe it about the circle
and notice this time as I come out, can you see?
I can place it outside the circle.
So I left click on the intersection there,
polar tracking going off the right at zero degrees,
and there's my polygon going outside the circle.
Then what I might do, is I might click on the circle itself,
it's sacrificial don't need it, right click and erase again.
So there's my octagonal outdoor table.
Now what I am going to do is deliberately move
that octagonal table.
And the nice thing is I can select it, right click,
move on the shortcut menu, and I need to pick a point
on the table to move it.
I'm going to use this endpoint snap here, left click,
drag it to where I want it to go,
which is sort of below the rectangular table, left click.
So we've now got some outdoor furniture
for people to sit outside the office on a lunch break,
or on a coffee break, you might even have a meeting outside
if the weather's good.
So there's some polygons,
and another way of play rectangles in AutoCAD.