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Part I ✦ AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Basics
5. Pick any point to create a line segment. You see the same Dynamic Input tooltip as
before, which means that you can continue to create more line segments. (Chapter 6 is
all about drawing lines.)
6. Press Enter to end the command and finish your line.
7. For your second line, choose Line from the Draw toolbar. (Figure 1-2 labels this
toolbar.) Again, pick any point on the screen.
8. Move your mouse so you can see the length and angle tooltips. Notice the value for the
length. Now type a different value and press Enter. For example, if the Length tooltip
says 13.7638, type 5 ↵.
9. Press Enter to end the command. The line’s length is based on what you typed, not
where the cursor was, but the line’s angle is the same as it was before you typed in the
length.
10. For your third line, type line. Notice that the text appears in the Dynamic Input tooltip
as you type, but not in the command-line area.
11. Press Enter. You now see the command that you typed in the command line area as well
as the Dynamic Input prompt to specify the first point.
12. Click in two places to pick a start point and an endpoint.
13. This time, to end the line, right-click anywhere in the drawing area. By default, this
opens a shortcut menu, but it may end the command. If so, you’re done. If you see the
shortcut menu, choose Enter from the shortcut menu to end the command.
14. For your fourth line, choose Tools ➪ Palettes ➪ Tool Palettes Window from the menu.
Click the Command tab, as shown in Figure 1-6. (Because of the many tabs, you may see
only part of the tab title. If you can’t find the Command tab, click the overlapping tabs
at the bottom and choose Command Tools from the list of tabs.)
Figure 1-6: You can execute commands from the Tool Palettes
window.
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