Specifying Distances with Coordinates

Specifying Distances with Coordinates
Next, you’ll continue with the Line command to draw a plan view (an overhead view) of a door, to
no particular scale. Later, you’ll resize the drawing to use in future exercises. The door will be 3.0
units long and 0.15 units thick. For metric users, the door will be 9 units long and 0.5 units thick. To
specify these exact distances in AutoCAD, you can use either relative polar coordinates or Cartesian
coordinates.



WARNING
The Imperial and metric distances aren’t equivalent in the exercises in this chapter.
For example, 3 units in the Imperial-based drawing isn’t equal to 9 metric units. These distances
are arbitrary and based on how they appear in the figures in this chapter.