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Welcome to Part 1 of the Polylines Exercise on this particular Course. Now, the reason that we have two parts to this exercise is I'm going to show you two different utilizations of the Polyline Command. Now the Polyline Command, when you create a Polyline, you can apply a width to that Polyline. We're going to draw some doors here on the Doors Layer, so we make sure that Doors is the Current drafting Layer, and what we're going to do, we're going to utilize the Polyline Command but give it a width. Now a width on a Polyline is a physical width. It's not like applying a Line Weight to a Polyline. So what we're going to do, we're going to go to the Utilities Panel here and use the Measure Tool. So we click on Measure and select Distance. Now the Distance, if I left-click here, and then down here and left-click again, is actually 2550, so half of that is 1275, so our door has to be at least 1275 long to cover half of that door opening because they are double doors. Now I'm just going to hit Escape there to exit the Measure Geometry Command. So we need to draw our Polyline. Now these are sliding doors on a sliding mechanism. They're going to be 50 millimeters thick, so we need to make sure that we draw that 50 distance. The way to do that is to use Direct Distance Entry. So what we're gong to do is we're going to go to our Polyline Command, which is on the Draw Panel. It looks like a fishhook there. Click on Polyline, come into the Drawing Area, and then we're prompted to specify a Start point, so we select the Start point first. So I'm going to left-click there, like that. Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to come out this way, like so, and as you can see I get the Distance option, like so, and then I'm going to right-click and then I'm going to select Width first before I put a Distance in. So I click on Width and you'll notice the Starting width there is 25, so it's 25 millimeters thick. I don't want it 25. I'm going to put in 15 and press Enter there. So now my Ending width as well. I can have tapered Polylines, so I could put zero in there and give it a taper, but I want a constant width all the way through, so I press Enter again to accept the 15 for the Ending width. As you can see now, you can see my line has a width. My Polyline has a width there. I'm going to cut it up by 50 now, so I put 50 in the Distance box like so, and press Enter. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to go vertically downward like this, and as I come down you'll notice I've got the Polar Tracking kicking in at 90 degrees there, as you can see on the Dynamic Input, but the actual coordinate is 270 degrees on that particular vertical. So you can see there I've got a Distance and an Angle. It's a Vector. So instead of putting the Coordinate there what I'm doing is I'm actually putting in a Distance and an Angle using the Polar Tracking. So I'm coming down the 270 degree line and as you can see at the moment I'm actually 1436.1236 distance down that Polar Tracking line. I don't actually need to go that far, so what I do is I put that 1275 in that we calculated from the Measure Distance earlier and press Enter, and as you can see there it's drawn that part of my door for me. I then drag to the left, again using the Polar Tracking. I need it to be 50 again, 50 Wide, like that, a 50 thickness on the doors. Now I've drawn three parts of the four lines that I need to create that door. Now this is a good habit to get into. You right-click and you select Close on the Shortcut Menu. That way, not only have you finished off your Polyline of your door there, but what you've also done is you've closed that Polyline as well. So that Polyline now has an area, but it's also a closed boundary for things like Hatching, or perhaps putting a Gradient fill in there to represent the door. Now, I've drawn one Polyline there, why draw another one? Let's just copy it. So I select the Polyline. I then go up to Copy here on the Modify Panel, so I select Copy, and what I do now is I pick a Base point that I know I can utilize to Move or Copy, so the same process to Move or Copy. I'm copying in this instance but this could also be utilized for Move. If I pick that corner there as my Base point and then come down here to copy it to that corner there and left-click, there's my two doors. The Copy Multiple kicks in automatically there, so it's prompting me there to copy elsewhere, which I don't want to do, so I press Enter and I finish my copy. Not only that but I finish the first part of drawing the Polylines there to represent my sliding doors.