Drawing and Editing Curved Polylines
The simplest curved objects are circles and arcs (which are just parts of circles), because they curve with a constant radius from a center point. In the following steps you will chain a series of arcs and/or lines together in a single polyline object, which not only streamlines editing and selection but also ensures smooth curvature between adjacent arcs.
- Go to the book's web page at www.sybex.com/go/autocad2012essentials and browse to Chapter 5 to get the files Ch5-A.dwg (or Ch5-A-metric.dwg) and Pond.jpg. Place them in the same folder on your hard drive and open the drawing file in AutoCAD (see Figure 5.1).
FIGURE 5.1 Initial landscape plan
- You will begin by drawing curved pathways surrounding the lake. ...
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