- Chapter Objectives
- EXERCISE 3-1 Drawing a Rectangular Conference Room, Including Furniture
- Making a Drawing Template
- Polyline
- OFFSET
- EXPLODE
- ID Point
- TRIM
- Rectangle
- CHAMFER
- FILLET
- COPY and Osnap-Midpoint
- ROTATE
- POINT
- DIVIDE
- MEASURE
- OSNAP
- MIRROR
- Osnap Modes That Snap to Specific Drawing Features
- Running Osnap Modes
- Osnap Settings: Marker, Aperture, Magnet, Tooltip
- EXERCISE 3-2 Drawing a Rectangular Lecture Room, Including Furniture
- Making Solid Walls Using Polyline and Solid Hatch
- From
- BREAK
- Polyline Edit
- HATCH
- ARRAY
- ARRAYEDIT
- Distance
- Exercise 3-3 Drawing a Curved Conference Room, Including Furniture
- Polyline
- POLYGON
- Grips—Add Vertex
- Grips—Convert to Arc
- ARRAY
- Exercise 3-4 Drawing a Conference Room Using Polar Tracking
- Polar Tracking
- Polyline Edit
- Specifying Points with Tracking
- Drawing the Chairs around the Conference Table
- Completing the Conference Room
- Using Command Preview
- Choosing Selection Options
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
COPY and Osnap-Midpoint
Osnap: An abbreviation of object snap, which specifies a snap point at an exact location on an object.
The COPY command allows you to copy any part of a drawing either once or multiple times. Object snap modes (Osnap), when combined with other commands, help you to draw very accurately. As you become more familiar with the object snap modes, you will use them constantly to draw with extreme accuracy. The following introduces the Osnap-Midpoint mode, which helps you snap to the midpoint of a line or arc.
COPY |
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Ribbon/Panel |
Home/Modify
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Draw Toolbar: |
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Menu Bar: |
Modify/Copy |
Type a Command: |
COPY |
Command Alias: |
CO or CP |
Step 26. Use the COPY command, combined with Osnap-Midpoint, to copy the chair you have just drawn (Figure 3-11), as described next:
Figure 3-11 Copy the chair using Osnap-Midpoint
Prompt
Response
Type a command:
Copy (or type CP <Enter>)
Select objects:
Click the first corner of a window that will include the chair
Specify opposite corner:
Click the other corner of the window to include the chair
Select objects:
<Enter>
Specify base point or [Displacement mOde] <Displacement>:
Type MID <Enter>
mid of
P1→ (Figure 3-11) (Turn SNAP off as needed)
Specify second point or [Array] <use first point as displacement>:
P2→ (be sure SNAP is on, and leave enough room to rotate the chair, Figure 3-12)
Figure 3-12 The rotated chair
Specify second point or [Array Exit Undo]<Exit>:
<Enter>
The Osnap-Midpoint mode helped you snap very accurately to the midpoint of the line; you used the midpoint of the line that defines the front of the chair as the base point. When using the COPY command, carefully choose the base point so that it helps you easily locate the copies.
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