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in this exercise for to produce a site for a landscape design using a partial map and the scale properties palette Grips objects snap objects snap tracking and killing commands.
and you see that sight on the screen here.
we'll begin by setting up the units for our site and I can type in VIEW ness.
at the command line.
I wanted select engineering for my units.
and the precision.
he is zero feet zero inches.
I'll say OK.
and that all type in limits to set my limits or my drawing area.
the bottom corner is zero zero all hit enter.
and then I wanted type in the hundred and seventy feet.
come up.
two hundred and forty feet.
for the top right corner.
I'll do a zoom all Z Enter A Enter.
and also set my snap in my grid.
to the one foot.
for my SNAP than ten feet.
for my grid.
to.
produce.
my site.
I'd been given a partial map from the client.
and it looks like ness.
I can do a screenshot by heavy in the print screen key on my keyboard.
and I can go back into AutoCAD.
and I can hit controlled the pace to.
so there's the image.
I'll zoom in just a little dead.
and then all trace over this image using the line command I'll start in the top right corner.
and it turned line.
my SNAP off.
and I'll draw a line from here to here.
getting those points from here the here.
and then the next line.
and the next line.
no one more line segment.
I can now select.
sitemap image and delete it.
and I can use the site.
it's not entirely accurate.
yet.
and we can tell that.
by selecting one of the Lions.
and going to the properties palette by right clicking if you.
look at the length that line its.
forty eight feet eleven inches.
whereas it should be hundred and forty feet.
now I can scale this.
entire.
so I ate using the scale command either the Modify panel or by typing in skillet the command line.
I'll select all the objects.
it Enter.
she's a base point in the top right corner.
and then from the command line opened in the are for reference.
and this allows me to specify a reference length.
and all but two points to define this.
line.
Claire.
and.
Colette my second point.
that's the reference line.
the new link that I want for that.
is a hundred and forty feet and that comes from a parcel man.
so type in a hundred and forty feet.
Enter and I'll ski ed I know I gotta do a zoom all Z Enter A Enter.
to get this deal right.
and all that end.
move this.
steel the upside eight.
back onto my drawing area read about here.
I can share the link to that line again by.
going to the properties palette this time from the properties panel.
and notice that the length of the line is now a hundred and forty feet.
which is exactly what I want.
if I am.
select another line segment.
perhaps this one.
notice it's thirty seven feet seven inches.
which is quite close to be.
length of the partial map of thirty seven feet nine inches.
let me check another lie.
this.
I'll bottom section is forty nine feet two inches.
words it should be.
fifty point three eight feet.
still it needs to be.
just days.
a little bit.
longer about a foot longer.
I can make this segment of foot longer.
by selecting.
the other line element that connects to it here.
and then turning all on.
my mate objects snap.
and mine a objects snap tracking.
from the status bar.
do I go to my Grips here.
I can.
select.
that line.
and I can move it don't a certain distance only zoom in.
but the I touch it I can get my objects snap.
tracking to work.
and what the allow me to do this case so I make this line choose to the foot longer.
he is.
I can type in the an extension distance of one.
don't forget to put symbol Enter.
it moves exactly what to I'll know when I checked the link to that line and let get fifty feet two inches.
which is.
she asked about perfect.
let me check go.
one other line.
CL this line this.
this line is a hundred and sixty two feet in a inches.
that's quite accurate to.
object line at the top year this line is fifty five feet ten inches.
and that's quite a here it is well so.
the FIA.
if I wanted to make any changes again I can simply use.
my Grips here.
let me just make one more change to this and to try to get this particular line perfect it's fifty twenty two right now.
suppose I wanna make it fifty point three inches.
house so I PC lines that connect.
I'll.
I'll let Claire.
to he said grap then I'll zoom in a little bit just to prove my accuracy.
they do that my SNAP off the status bar.
and there was no snap tracking.
I'll get the extension in I'll just type in in this case loan for one inch.
Enter.
and L I checked the line it should be one inch longer.
and in fact it is to see that it's fifty feet three inches.
so why do that for.
well my lines I can eventually get very accurate.
now it really doesn't have to be with them one inch I'd say within one foot is probably good enough for out.
for on site going like this.
the last thing that I want to do here.
used to.
Joe in all of these lines into one.
one object or one entity.
and I can do this with the piano command but this time the mini use the new command the geo in command.
GAO higher than July.
I'll hit Enter.
I'll select the objects that I want to join.
in this case I wanna select.
all of the lines and I can also use a crossing window to do that.
I'll hit Enter.
and then else.
select the line to see that it's one object.
the village of combining this is that the next time the properties and I'll do it from the panel here.
if I look in that area.
it gives me the area in square inches and square feet.
twelve thousand nine hundred and eighty six square feet.
and a mini use that when I save my drawing.
although say that's.
I'm going to call this site.
and then twelve ninety six this square feet of my sight and I'll say say.
and I've completed my site drawing.