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Creating points and donuts as reference points in AutoCAD

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Creating points and donuts as reference points in AutoCAD

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our ground floor plan, _REV2.DWG file. And as you can see, I've left it in the same place as it was at the end of the last video. We're going to do a little bit of housekeeping first and then we're going to take a look at points and donuts in AutoCAD. Now don't get too excited, you don't need to order in coffee for the AutoCAD donuts, they are a geometric shape, not actually donuts that you can eat. But what we're going to do, we're going to move our octagonal table first. Just click on it, you'll see it go blue with the grips, right click on the mouse and select Move on the contextual shortcut menu. Click on Move. I'm going to pick this corner here, that endpoint snap there, left click, and as you can see, I can move it now. Pop it over here somewhere, left click again so it's just underneath the rectangular table. Now the reason I'm doing that is we're going to put some bike bays in the landscaped area so that people can cycle to work. So we're going…

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