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3. Make sure that the Object Snap Tracking and Object Snap buttons on the status bar are
turned on.
Object Snap
Object Snap Tracking
4. Click the Line tool on the Tool Sets palette; choose Draw Line from the menu bar, or
enter L ↵.
5. At the Specify first point: prompt, hover your cursor over the lower-right corner of
the bathroom so that the Endpoint Osnap marker appears, but don't click it.
6. Now move the cursor downward; as you do, the tracking vector appears. (If the tracking
vector doesn't appear at first, hover your cursor over the corner again until it does appear.)
Remember that a little cross appears at the osnap location, telling you that Osnap
Tracking has “locked on” to that location.
7. With the tracking vector visible, point the cursor directly downward from the corner, and
then type 5 ↵. Metric users should type 13 ↵. A line starts 5˝ (or 13 cm) below the lower-
right corner of the bathroom. This is known as direct distance .
8. Continue the line horizontally to the left, to cross the left wall of the apartment unit
slightly, as illustrated in the top image in Figure 6.15. Press ↵.
9. Draw another line upward from the endpoint of the top door jamb to meet the top wall of
the unit (see the bottom image in Figure 6.15). Use the Perpendicular osnap to pick the top
wall of the unit. This causes the line to end precisely on the wall line in a perpendicular
position, as in the bottom image in Figure 6.15.
You can also use the Perpendicular Osnap override to draw a line perpendicular to a
non-orthogonal line—one at a 45° angle, for instance.
SMOOTHING THE ARC
You may not ice that some of the arcs in your bathroom draw ing aren't smooth. Don't be alar med; this
is how AutoCAD displays arcs and circles in enlarged views. The arcs will be smooth when they're
printed. If you want to see them now as they're stored in the file, you can regenerate the drawing
by typing REGEN ↵ at the Command prompt. Chapter 7, “Mastering Viewing Tools, Hatches, and
External References,” discusses regeneration in more detail.
 
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