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There are many ways to create polygons:
■ Specifying the radius when you know the distance between the center of
the polygon and the endpoint of each side (inscribed)
■ Specifying the radius when you know the distance between the center of
the polygon and the midpoint of each side (circumscribed)
■ Specifying the length of an edge and where you want to place it
Use
RECTANG rather than POLYGON to create rectangles.
See Also
“Draw Polylines” on page 262
To draw a circumscribed polygon
1 From the Draw menu, choose Polygon.
2 On the command line, enter the number of sides.
3 Specify the center of the polygon (1).
4 Enter c to specify a polygon circumscribed about a circle.
5 Enter the radius length (2).
Draw toolbar
Command line
POLYGON
To draw a polygon by specifying one edge
1 From the Draw menu, choose Polygon.
2 On the command line, enter the number of sides.
3 Enter e (Edge).
4 Specify the start point for one polygon segment.
5 Specify the endpoint of the polygon segment.
Draw toolbar
Command line
POLYGON
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