Cleaning Up the Line Work

Cleaning Up the Line Work
You’ve drawn some of the wall lines, approximating their endpoint locations. Next, you’ll use the
Fillet command to join lines exactly end to end and then import the Kitchen drawing.
Follow these steps to join the lines:
1. Click the Fillet tool on the Modify toolbar.
2. Type R↵0↵ to make sure that the fillet radius is set to 0.

Understanding the Osnap Tracking Vector
The Osnap Tracking vector comes into play only after you’ve placed an Osnap marker on a location—in
this case, the corner of the bathroom. It won’t appear at any other time. If you have both Running
Osnaps and Osnap Tracking turned on, you’ll get the tracking vector every time the cursor lands on an
osnap location. This can be confusing to novice users, so you may want to use Osnap Tracking sparingly
until you become more comfortable with it.
Because Polar Tracking also uses a tracking vector, you may get the two confused. Remember that Polar
Tracking lets you point the cursor in a specific direction while selecting points. If you’re an experienced
AutoCAD user, you can think of it as a more intelligent Ortho mode. On the other hand, Osnap Tracking
lets you align points to osnap locations. Experienced AutoCAD users can think of Osnap Tracking as a
more intelligent XYZ filter option.

TIP The Chamfer command performs a similar function to the Fillet command. Unlike Fillet, the
Chamfer command enables you to join two lines with an intermediate beveled line rather than
with an arc. Chamfer can be set to join two lines at a corner in exactly the same manner as Fillet.
3. Fillet the two lines by picking the vertical and horizontal lines, as indicated in the second
panel in Figure 6.12, shown earlier in this chapter. Notice that these points lie on the portion
of the line you want to keep. Your drawing will look like the second panel in Figure 6.12.
4. Fillet the bottom wall of the bathroom with the left wall of the unit, as shown in Figure 6.13.
Make sure the points you pick on the wall lines are on the side of the line you want to keep,
not on the side you want trimmed.



5. Fillet the top wall of the unit with the right-side wall of the bathroom, as shown in Figure 6.13.
TIP You can select two lines at once for the fillet operation by using a crossing window; to do so,
type C↵ at the Select first object or ...: prompt. The two endpoints closest to the fillet
location are trimmed.
The location where you select the lines affects how the lines are joined. As you select objects for Fillet,
the side of the line where you click is the side that remains when the lines are joined. Figure 6.14
illustrates how the Fillet command works and shows what the Fillet options do.



TIP If you select two parallel lines during the Fillet command, the two lines are joined with an arc.
Now, import the Kitchen plan you drew earlier in this chapter:
1. Click Insert Block on the Draw toolbar, and then browse to locate the kitchen drawing you
created earlier in this chapter. Make sure you leave the Specify On-Screen check box unselected
under the Scale and Rotation groups of the Insert dialog box.
2. Place the kitchen drawing at the wall intersection below the bathtub. (See the top image in
Figure 6.15.)



TIP If you didn’t complete the kitchen earlier in this chapter, you can insert the 06a-kitchen.dwg
file. Metric users can insert 06 kitchen-metric.dwg.
3. Adjust your view with Pan and Zoom so that the upper portion of the apartment unit is
centered in the drawing area, as illustrated in the top image in Figure 6.15.