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In this Animated Tutorials series, one will get a basic ideas of - how tools can be used to create drawings.
This tutorial will guide step by step to understand from very basic behavior of tools. In other word, it can be an Animated User Manual.
Contents of this Tutorial will follow as mentioned below.
Before moving to tutorials, let's see few basics of - how command-line, mouse, and Tool-option used as input.
MOUSE (located at status bar)
When command is changed, one will see differences such as
WikiRight-click works as same as Esc, To exit any commands, Right-click two times escapes the command.
Command-line
Command-line is used for inputs such as Length, Angle, Points, and can be input the same after the particular command is activated.
Tool-option
Different tools shows the different option, check-it out by various different tools such as Line, Angle, Circle, Rectangle, etc.
Use the Tools Menu or Toolbar to select tools.
| Line | Circle | Modify |
|---|---|---|
| 2 points | Center Point | Move / Copy |
| Angle | 2 Points | Rotate |
| Horizontal | 2 Points, Radius | Scale |
| Vertical | 3 Points | Mirror |
| Rectangle | Center, Radius | Move and Rotate |
| Parallel through points | Tangential 2 Circles, 1 Point | Revert Direction |
| Parallel | Tangential, 2 Point | Trim |
| Bisector | Tangential 2 Circles, Radius | Trim Two |
| Tangent (P,C) | Tangential 3 Circles | Lengthen |
| Tangent (C,C) | Offset | |
| Tangent Orthogonal | Bevel | |
| Orthogonal | Fillet | |
| Relative Angle | Divide | |
| Polygon (Cen, Cor) | Stretch | |
| Polygon (Cen, Tan) | Properties | |
| Polygon (Cor, Cor) | Attributes | |
| Explode text | ||
| Explode | ||
| Delete Selected |
