- [Instructor] We're staying in our office layout
two dot DWG file and I've done a zoom extent
so that we can see all of the visible,
drawn objects in the drawing itself.
And what we've done is we've gone to a new layer.
So make sure you're using the nodes layer in the drawing,
it's kind of a pink color.
And what we're going to do,
we're going to utilize the divide
and measure commands to organize
some of the exterior planting outside the building.
So if I just pan upwards slightly,
you can see we've got a little shrub here
which is going to go up this line here
to sort of shield the bin store from the road.
It's just a nice little way
of making things look attractive,
and nobody wants to look at blue bins
but if you've got some nice flowering shrubs
it always looks a lot nicer.
We've also got a shrub here at the end of this line here
which marks the path outside the front of the building.
What I'd like you to do though
is move this particular plant.
We'll click on it, click on the grip and just pop it
to the left hand end of the line using the endpoint snap
and then hit escape to deselect.
The reason being then we're working
in a positive direction in both the X and Y axis.
If you look at the UCS there
which is set to the default world coordinate system,
Y going upwards is positive,
X going to the right is positive.
So now that I know if I'm placing anything
and dividing lines up with spacing,
I can actually make sure
that it's a positive value that I use.
So, as I said, we're on the nodes layer.
We're going to go up to the utilities panel now
and click on this little fly out here,
and we want point style.
Now, the point style in your AutoCAD drawings is defined
by this little dialogue box.
I'm going to select this point style because the default there
in the black is just a tiny little dot.
I want my points to stand out
and I'm putting them on the nodes layer
because the node object snap is what's used
to snap to these points.
So I'm going to select this one here,
stands out a lot more, the circle with the diagonal cross.
Then my point size will be 5%
of set size relative to screen.
So that means these points when they appear
will always be 5% of my screen size when I'm zoomed in
and out in AutoCAD.
If you set the size to absolute units,
obviously when you zoom out a long way
those points will get smaller, and smaller, and smaller,
and you might not be able to see them.
So it's always a good idea to set size relative to screen.
So it's the little one with the diagonal cross,
5% there, set size relative to screen, and then okay.
So that's our point style defined,
what I'm going to do now is utilize
the divide command up here in the draw panel.
So let's click on the fly out and just pin it open.
So there's the divide command where I divide
into a number of segments,
and there's the measure command
that I'm going to use as well,
where I measure a distance
between the markers for the segments.
So let's use divide first.
If I click on divide, come into the drawing area
and select the object I want to divide,
that's going to be this line here.
And then the number of segments I'm going to divide
that into is going to be five.
And then I press enter,
and there's my points there.
And as you can see there that little diagonal cross
with the circle based on the point style.
Then what I'm going to do,
I'm going to do the same again on this line down here,
but I'm going to use this one, the measure tool.
Come into the drawing area again,
select the object to measure, that'll be the green line.
The length of the segment each time
will be 1000 millimeters or one meter.
And as you can see, that measures exactly along there
because that line is actually 9,000 millimeters long.
So we've got an exact number of segments, which is great.
So that point ends up on the end.
It means I also get a shrub on the end there
when I'm using the object snaps in a moment.
What I am going to do,
I've noticed I've got my selection cycling on,
which is down here on the status bar.
I'm just going to turn that off to avoid any confusion.
And then what I'm going to do,
I'm going to go to my object snaps here on the status bar
and I'm going to switch my node snap on.
Now, you'll notice it's already on,
I often use it anyway, but if yours isn't on
just make sure you click on it
and you get the little tick next to it,
come back down to your little arrow next to object snaps
on the status bar, click on the arrow that closes the menu.
And then all we've got to do,
I'll zoom in here, is just quickly copy our little shrubs.
So there's our little snaps there,
so let's get that in place.
I'm going to select this here, like so,
and then it's a simple right click, copy selection.
You can go for the endpoint snap there
or possibly the intersection on the shrub itself.
It doesn't matter.
And then you just go to each node like that
and you see the node snap appear, just keep copying,
like so until you're done.
And then enter to finish.
We'll then zoom out,
zoom in a bit here so that we can see the whole line.
There's the shrub, click on it, right click, copy selection.
Again, I've got the endpoint of the line there,
which is perfect.
And then you just click on each node,
working your way along.
So you get a nice little line of shrubs
along the front path of the building.
It takes a few seconds, there we are,
get to the end and just press enter to finish.
Now, when you zoom out slightly,
you'll notice, can you see, you can just see those nodes
kind of underneath the shrubs.
If I do a regen, watch what happens to those nodes,
those points, can you see they get bigger?
And the reason I've got them on a separate layer is purely
so that I can turn that layer off.
So if we were going to work on more landscaping or plants now,
I would change my layer to something like plants there
and then jump on the layer drop down again,
come to nodes here,
click on the sun symbol to freeze that layer.
And then if I just hit escape a couple of times
to lose the layer drop down,
you can see our plants are now placed
nice and neatly along these lines here for our plants.
Now I'm going to leave the lines there
because the lines actually define the path.
And you might want to use those as geometry
to perhaps create some areas for hatching to show areas
of gravel or hard standing, perhaps.