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Lesson: Using Object Snap Tracking ■ 135
Practice Exercise: Object Snap Tracking
Practice using object snap tracking orthogonally.
1. Begin a new drawing.
2. Be sure that Object Snap and Object Snap
Tracking are both selected in the status bar.
Right-click Object Snap and be sure that the
Midpoint selection mode is selected.
3. Draw a rectangle any size:
■ On the Home tab, click Draw panel >
Rectangle.
■ Click the first corner; click the opposite
corner.
4. Draw a circle (any size) in the center of the
rectangle:
■ On the Home tab, click Draw panel > Circle.
■ Hold the mouse over the midpoint of one
of the lines in the rectangle until you see a
small cross.
■ Then hold the mouse over the midpoint of
one of the adjacent lines.
■ Then bring your curser to the middle of the
rectangle.
■ Click at the intersection of the two dotted
lines of the horizontal and polar angles.
■ Specify the circle size by clicking a point in
the graphics window, or entering a value on
the command line.
5. Close all files. Do not save.