Polygon - Draw

Create closed objects with 3 ~ 1024 equal sides

Home tab > Draw panel > Polygon

Enter number of sides

Input 5

Specify center of polygon

Incribed in circle

Select Incribed in circle

Specify radius of circle

 A1 = A2 = A3 = A4 = A5

Circumscribed about circle

Select Circumscribed about circle

Specify radius of circle

A1 = A2 = A3 = A4 = A5

Edge

Click Edge option on the command line

Specify 1st endpoint of edge

Specify 2nd endpoint of edge

Drawing Basic Object

Running Object Snap

Snap to specific points on the objects

Status bar -- Object Snap

When Object Snap is ON, background color is light blue

Right-click on the Object Snap icon

A list of 13 object Snap pop-up
The one with the blue square mean is ON

Select Settings

 

Snap to the closest endpoint or corner of a geometry object, like Line, Arc

Snap to the midpoint of a geometry object, like Line, Arc

Snap to the center of an Arc, Circle, Ellipse, Elliptical Arc
You must hover the cursor near the edge of an arc to show the center point

Snap to a Point Object, Dimension Definition Point, Dimension Text Origin

Snap to an Arc, Circle, Ellipse, Elliptical Arc

Snap to a common point of multiple geometries

Hover on a point and move along the path, causes a temporary extension line or arc

You also can get an intersection from 2 extension lines

Snap to the insertion point of objects like Text, Block, Attribute

Snap to a point perpendicular to the selected geometric object
Pick a point for line then move cursor on another line object to make it perpendicular

Pick a point from the line object, then snap the 2nd point to other geometric object
This will draw a line perpendicular to the 1st line object



 

Snap to the tangent of an Arc, Circle, Ellipse, Elliptical Arc, Polyline Arc, Spline

You can either start a point then snap the 2nd point tangent  to an Arc or Circle
Or, start a tangent point from an Arc or Circle, then snap to other geometric object

Snap to the nearest (any point) point of an object, like an Arc, Circle, Ellipse, Elliptical Arc, Line, Polyline, Spline, Point object

 



Snap to the visual intersection of 2 objects that do not intersect in 3D space, but appear to intersect in 2D space



Constrains a line or polyline segment's angle to be same to another linear object



 

Pick a point from the line to be parallel

Move away until the parallel icon reappear again, an infinite continuous dotted line appear
Move along the infinite line to pick any point

Object Snap Overrides

Override running object snap with a specific object snap

Commonly for the less frequent use Object Snap

After a draw command, Shift + Right-click

Select any Object Snap from the list

Running Object Snap temporary disable
After you snap a point specify by Object Snap Override, all the running object snaps active again

Polar Tracking

Tracking to an angle

Status bar -- Polar Tracking

Right-click on the Polar Tracking icon -- Settings

Polar Angle Settings:

Increment angle
90, 45, 30, 22.5, 18, 15, 10, 5

Additional Angle

 

22, 338 only

Polar Angles measurement

Absolute:

Relative to last segment