Arrays

The ARRAY command has been completely revamped in AutoCAD 2012. The command used to have a massive dialog box and now that's been replaced by onscreen commands and a contextual ribbon panel. The ARRAY command used to output individual objects that were not associated with the array after creation. Arrays now produce single associative objects, which you can edit at any time to alter the parameters of the array. You will learn how to create two types of arrays: rectangular and polar.

Rectangular Arrays

Rectangular arrays are arranged in a grid of rows (running horizontally) and columns (running vertically). Let's create a rectangular array:

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