Create angle measurements with polar tracking

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Polar tracking can be turned on and off in the status bar.

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If you click on the drop down for polar tracking, you can also see different angles

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that can be set.

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You can also see these angles in the tracking settings

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under drafting settings.

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You can see 45 is the current increment angle.

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If you wanted to add new additional angles, let's say, for example,

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you needed something different like

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a 12.5 degree angle or something that wasn't in

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the drop down list, you can click the new button

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and then add the angle that you want.

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One other thing I wanted to point out was the display of

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the angles that you have

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will be different depending on what units

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you have specified for your drawing units.

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For example,

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right now I have decimal degrees if I change this to degrees minutes seconds

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and then I look at the drop down for polar tracking,

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you can see that the angles are depicted with

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degrees minutes seconds.

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So if I go back into units, I'll change this to

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decimal degrees

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and then the display goes back to just

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simple angles.

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So to get started, I'll make sure that the polar tracking is turned on

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and in the angle drop down, I'll make sure 45

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degrees is selected.

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Now, the way this works, I'll start the poly line command,

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specify a point

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and then I'll draw this first line.

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We'll make this

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then hit enter

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and then

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polar tracking works like this. Notice the green projection line

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at the 45 degree angle. So each time my cursor

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gets to a 45 degree angle,

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it gives me the green projection line for polar tracking.

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So now I know I'm going to achieve a 45 degree angle.

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So I can type in,

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let's say 25 ft for this line

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and then I can go up uh straight up at 90 degrees

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at another 25 ft.

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And now look at this, I get the 135 angle by using the polar tracking.

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So I can type in another 25

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and then I can come over

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the 60 ft from before.

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And then if I type in C,

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I've just closed my poly line,

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but I achieved those angles by using the polar tracking.

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And like I said before,

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you can change to different angles when you

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have different angles necessary in your design.

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So as you can see O

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snaps,

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object snap tracking and polar tracking

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have tremendous uses and functionality in Autocad

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O

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snaps help you in correctly placing your cursor

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and polar and object snap tracking can assist

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you in creating geometry while utilizing less depths,

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increasing design accuracy,

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thereby maximizing efficiency.