AutoCAD® 2012 and AutoCAD LT® 2012 Essentials: Autodesk® Official Training Guide

Drawing Circles, Arcs, and Polygons

Arcs are sections of circles. Polygons are regular figures made of straight segments such as a triangle, square, pentagon, or hexagon. A polygon with a large number of segments may look like a circle but is fundamentally different.

There are many options for creating circles, arcs, and polygons. AutoCAD provides these options to make it easier to create accurate shapes based on all the types of geometric situations that typically arise in drawings.

Creating Circles

Let's draw some circles on the kitchen stove to represent the burners:

1. Zoom into the stove in the kitchen. Two of the burner circles are missing and you will draw them.
2. On the Home tab, take a look at the Layer drop-down menu in the Layers panel ...