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User Increment Angles for Polar (new in 2015)
From: AutoCAD Productivity Articles #138
Originally published: February 2015
The Polar tracking feature [F10] comes with several preset increments. But what if you want your own increment, like, 12? This is now available for the first time in AutoCAD 2015 where you can specify an increment value, and AutoCAD will snap to all instances of that increment!
How to Add Additional Polar Angles
Click the drop-down arrow beside Polar Tracking, then click Tracking Settings.
Check the box for Additional Angles, then click New and enter a new angle. Click OK to close the Drafting Settings dialog box.
Click the dropdown arrow beside Polar Tracking, then click your new angle increments.
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Trim Up
Often, you find yourself using the Trim command to tidy up loose ends of lines. If this is the case, don't bother selecting cutting edges, just use the "select all" option.
Start the Trim command, TRIM from the command line. At the prompt, simply hit the Enter key to accept the <select all> option.
from the pull-down menu orNow, just pick the line ends you want to remove.
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