SOLUTION Practice Exercise 1: Advanced drawing

objects

Exam objectives covered by this exercise include:

• 1.1a Create and edit polylines, arcs, polygons, and splines

Video resources that may help with this practice exercise are:

• Create and work with polylines

Description
In this practice exercise you will edit the polylines in the drawing using specific
techniques. When completed, your drawing should look the way it does in the AFTER
image below.

Exercise Solution
1. Open the Contours Map-001.dwg drawing file.
Ensure you are on the Arrows layer. From the ribbon, click the Home tab, Draw
panel, Polyline.

1. Select a start point for the polyline with width, drag to the right, and right-click.
Choose Width in the shortcut menu.

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 2. At the Specify starting width prompt, type in 50 and press Enter.

3. At the Specify ending width prompt, type in 50 and press Enter.

4. Drag to the right, and using Direct Distance Entry and Polar tracking, set a
horizontal length of the polyline of 500 and press Enter.

5. Press Enter again to close the Polyline command.

You will end up with a red polyline with a 50 width on the Arrows layer.

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 6. Repeat the Polyline command (you can right-click here and choose Repeat PLINE
from the shortcut menu if you wish).

7. Using object snaps, select the right Endpoint snap of the polyline you previously
created as the start point of the new polyline.

8. Right-click and choose Width in the shortcut menu.

9. At the Specify starting width prompt, type in 200 and press Enter.

10. At the Specify ending width prompt, type in 0 and press Enter.

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 11. Drag to the right, and using Direct Distance Entry and Polar tracking, set a
horizontal length of the polyline of 300 and press Enter.

12. The two polylines, adjacent to each other, should now look like this:

13. Select either polyline (the grips will display), and right-click.

14. On the shortcut menu, choose Polyline > Join.

15. Select the other polyline that was not selected previously. Press Enter. The Polyline
Edit (PEDIT) sub-menu will appear.

16. Press Enter to close the command. The two polylines should now be joined as one
polyline to form a new arrow.

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 17. Select the joined polyline to check, and they should look like this:

18. With the new arrow polyline selected (with the grips displayed), right-click and
choose Copy Selection.

19. Select the sharp arrowhead tip of the new arrow polyline as the base point for the
copy and make TWO more copies of the arrow, making a total of THREE new
arrows.

20. Select each new arrow, and then right-click, and choose Move.

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 21. Use the arrowhead tip as the base point and then the Nearest object snap to place
each new arrow on a separate contour line (you may need to use Shift + right-click
to bring up the Snap Overrides to get the Nearest object snap).

22. Using any method, erase the original arrows made up of line geometry.

23. Double-click on the mouse wheel to Zoom Extents.

The drawing should now look like this:

End of exercise

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