From the course: AutoCAD 2024 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 24,700 courses taught by industry experts.

Using Divide and Measure

Using Divide and Measure

We're going to take a look now at how we can work with the Divide and Measure tools in AutoCAD. Now Divide and Measure are really useful tools in AutoCAD because they allow you to divide an object into equal segments or measure along an object in basically measured segments where you know the distance. Now what we're going to do is we're going to jump to our Layer dropdown here, like so, and we want to be using the nodes layer as our current drafting layer first. Now we're still in the same drawing, still in the office layout 2.dwg file. I've zoomed out a little bit because we're gonna be dividing and measuring along this line and this line here. Now we're gonna look at dividing first. So we're gonna zoom in on this little area here near the bin store. Those blue objects are the bins and that's the bin store. And we're adding a little bit of landscaping along this line like a little sort of vegetation shield, so to speak, where we've got some planting going on. Now, what we need to do…

Contents