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Creating and using arrays in your AutoCAD drawings

Creating and using arrays in your AutoCAD drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD 2025 Essential Training

Creating and using arrays in your AutoCAD drawings

- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our officelayout_3.dwg file, and we're staying in that area above the office building in the model tab in the drawing as well. We're going to be taking a look at arrays in AutoCAD. Now there's three types of arrays. There's rectangular, polar and path. And each one performs a different methodology within your AutoCAD drawing. Now the array command is a great way of copying, but it's an enhanced copy with lots of variables. So a rectangular array will allow you to space the copying of the objects that you're arraying, et cetera, et cetera. So let's jump into that and see how these arrays work. What we're doing is we're setting up some nice privacy planting around the decking area just above the building there in the floor plan. So you'll notice we've got a little plant all on his lonesome over here at the moment. And what we're going to do, we're going to rectangular array that particular plant first and build a nice privacy hedge of plants…

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