20 Days of 2D AutoCAD exercises #11

Welcome to today’s play. Here is a simple figure that will serve us today.

Again, we will be using tricks we have learned and leaning new tricks as well. I would love to show you the ARRAY command today.

I will recommend you look at how to create ARRAYS in AutoCAD. Here, we will create a polar Array with 3 elements. Basically, we have to draw one element, and use the ARRAY command to get other elements.

All 3 legs of the design are forming 120 degrees with one another, yes, they are uniformly placed in a circular arrangement.

Step 1

Draw the figure below.

Step 2

Use the ARRAY command to create a polar Array. A is the center of your array.

Step 3

Use the FILLET command to get H, P and Q. The raidius is 30.

Step 4

Draw the last piece of object, use the ARRAY command again to get the others around the whole design. Use the same center as you did in Step 2

Pretty easy right!?

See you on the next 2D exercise, don’t forget to like ans share.

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January 2, 2014

AutoCAD, Exercises

Antone

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10 responses to “20 Days of 2D AutoCAD exercises #11”

Abdul Azim
June 11, 2014
Doing a polar array with the centre circle won’t that create 3 circles on top of each other?
This could cause problem if this was a more complicated drawing.
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1. Antone
  June 11, 2014
  Using a polar array will place circles around the centre point not on top of each other. You may need to check how to create an array in autocad
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Micky
July 13, 2014
Hi there, I’m having a bit of trouble doing the fillet. AutoCAD is not letting me select the straight lines? Each time I try to select a line, the whole array is selected as one. I also cannot trim lines. Can you help me please? Thanks
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1. Antone
  July 13, 2014
  It is hard to see what you are doing wrong. The array should not be a single object, not sure how you can select it all with a click.
  Try using the EXPLODE command on your array, and try again to see if it helps. http://www.ncsu.edu/project/graphicscourse/gc/acadtut/explode3.html
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  1. Kahleb
    June 25, 2015
    I’m having a similar problem, I cannot figure out how you selected individual lines as my array is a solid object also.. It’s doubtful you will see this as this was a year ago now but figures I’d try. Thanks for any help, great series of practice work!
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    1. Matt
      July 6, 2015
      I was just having this issue and Antone’s explode command worked to break up my array into segments, allowed the fillet to work as well as trimming
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2. Areeb Ahmad
  October 10, 2015
  After ARRAY command you need to use EXPLODE command (to tell AutoCAD that these 3 cones are now different entities) and then use FILLET command. 🙂
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do713
October 8, 2015
Wouldn’t it be easier to start from drawing what’s on step four (with the drawing in step 1 as a guide) and then apply array? It seemed way easier to me. Anyway, thanks for great exercises
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Б. Батзаяа
March 17, 2017
hello I CANT use Fillet command. Help me anybody?
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Engr Shaikh Emmad Uddin
October 20, 2017
how to do step 4?
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20 Days of 2D AutoCAD exercises #11

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