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Start Creating

You can set these tracking angles to be whatever you want. Using the Tracking settings,
you can enter your angle of preference.
A line
To draw a line in AutoCAD. follow the following.

1 – Activate the LINE command with a click on its appropriate icon.

2 – Click anywhere in the drawing area to tell AutoCAD where you want the first point to
be

3 – Repeat the previous step after sliding the cursor away from the first point.

4 – Press the ESC key on your keyboard to Cancel the command.

If you have more than a line to draw, you don’t have to start each by starting all over
again. You might have noticed that after step 3, AutoCAD was letting you draw another
line considering its beginning was at the end of the previously drawn line.

If you look at the object below, you will see that it has 3 points.

If we were to draw this (we do not care about dimensions and line inclinations for now), we
will
1. Activate the Line command
2. Click to indicate the point 1
3. Click to indicate the point 2
4. Click to indicate the point 3
5. Click on point 1 again to close it
6. Press the ESC key
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You must still have many questions about drawing a line, No worries! More will be
covered in next tutorials. Possibilities might still remain few with what you know so far.
As you learn possibilities will increase.

Exercise With Line Command

Video link Below .

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Drawing circles in AutoCAD

Drawing an ordinary circle is quite easy in AutoCAD. All you have to do is

1. Click on the CIRCLE icon (shown on the image above)

2. Specify the center of the circle with a click in the drawing area
3. Specify the radius of the circle with another click
Example

Drawing the circle above, we will

1. Activate the CIRCLE command

2. Specify the center of the circle
3. Type 30 and hit ENTER
as simple as that.

Sometime the information you have about the circle you want to draw is neither the
center of it nor its radius. This is where comes other option of the CIRCLE command.

Center Diameter
If you are using the this option to draw a circle, you will simply need to repeat what we
did earlier with the only different that at step 3, you will have to enter the value of
the Diameter of the circle instead of entering the value of radius.
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2 points
This option help you draw a circle using two endpoints, where the 2 points will form the
diameter of the circle.

To use this

1. Activate the CIRCLE command

2. Select the first point
3. Select the second point
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3 points
This works absolutely like the preceding one at the difference that instead of 2 points
you have to indicate 3 points.