Entity Drawing and Editing Basics

About this lesson

Every drawing starts with simple geometry. This lesson covers creating the basic entities you'll use constantly and making quick edits to them.

What you'll learn in Entity Drawing and Editing Basics

• Drawing lines, polylines, circles, arcs and rectangles
• Entering points by clicking or typing coordinates
• Selecting entities and using grips to edit them
• Erasing and undoing mistakes
• Checking entity properties

Key commands & tools

Coming from AutoCAD? Typed aliases such as L for LINE, C for CIRCLE and E for ERASE work the same way they do in AutoCAD.