Developing Drawing Strategies: Part 2 - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 231

FiGuRE 5.72 Starting the hot tub polyline
3. Click on the endpoint to the right, on the opposite end of the pop-out.
4. Move the cursor directly above the last point and enter 4'5-5/8” ↵
( 1362 ↵ ) to draw the first vertical line. Refer to Figure 5.63 for the
dimensions of the hot tub.
5. Earlier in this chapter, you set the Polar Tracking Increment Angle
value to 45.00 in the Drafting Settings dialog box. This setting lets
you easily place the cursor at 45º increments from a set point rather
than at the 90º increments provided by using Ortho mode.
Place the cursor above and to the left of the current last point,
until the Polar Snap tooltip reads 135º; then enter 3'6-7/8” ↵
( 1089 ↵ ) to draw the diagonal line (see Figure 5.73).
6. Use the Perpendicular osnap to draw the top horizontal line from the
last point to the outside of the bathroom wall.
Finally, enter C ↵ at the command line to close the polyline and end
the POLYLINE command.
7. Use the OFFSET command to offset the polyline 4 ″ (102 mm) to the
inside.
8. Start the FILLET command and set the Radius value to 3 ” ( 76 ); then fil-
let the two outside corners that project into the cabin (see Figure 5.74).
9. Stop and then restart the FILLET command, but this time choose
the Polyline option. Click the inside polyline to fillet all the corners
at one time.
10. Zoom to the drawing's extents. Your cabin should look like Figure 5.75.
11. Save your drawing as 05A-FPLAY7.dwg.