The MOVE Command / Coordinate Entry
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We're now going to look at the Move Command using Coordin Entry. So here's our two-seater sofa butted up against the Midpoint of the bay window as per the previous exercise. Now, I actually want to move it a hundred millimeters to the left so that the sofa isn't actually touching the wall of the bay window area there. So what we're going to do, again going to use the Move Command but we're actually going to find a base point and then move it some exact coordinates to the left. So we're going to use our X and Y coordinates to do that. Now, I'm going to use the quick way of selecting the sofa itself. So in the drawing here I click on the sofa like so. I then right click and go to Move like we did previously in the previous exercise. And now it asks us to specify a base point. So we go to the base point, which is that midpoint on the wall where we placed the original sofa earlier. But now it asks for a second point. If I just move away slightly, it doesn't matter because I fixed the base point. You can see the coordinate entry there on the dynamic input. I want to move it 100 units, or millimeters in this case, to the left. So my X value is going to be minus 100. Now, I need to get across to the other box there now, which is a moment specified in 24 degrees. If I press the Comma key on the keyboard, it then takes me to the Y coordinates input box, which in this case is going to be zero because I'm moving horizontally to the left. So I input my coordinates like so. As soon as I press enter now you see that my sofa is moved a hundred units to the left. Now, I could have also done this using Direct Distance Entry. So let's Undo that move and again, I'll click on the sofa, right click and go to the Move Command like so. It asks me to specify a base point so I go back to the same base point, the Midpoint Snap there and this time instead of using a coordinate, if I make sure that my Polar Tracking is on, which down here it is, I can now just drag to the left along my zero-degree or 180-degree Polar Tracking Line, depending on which direction I go. One-eighty is to the left, zero is to the right horizontally. I want to go to the left into the lounge. So I just move in that direction, I type a distance, 100, press Enter and again, it moves 100 millimeters to the left. So I can either use Coordin Entry, which in this case is a relative coordinate, or I can use the Direct Distance Entry with the Polar Tracking. Either way, it's moving using coordinates 100 millimeters to the left.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Autodesk AutoCAD 2009: Certified Professional |
| Author: | Shaun Bryant |
| SKU: | 33947 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-14-9 |
| Release Date: | 2008-11-26 |
| Duration: | 4 hrs / 56 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | Available on CD and Online University |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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