Practice Exercise: Draw with precision and edit with grips

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This is the solution video for draw with precision and edit with grips in

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a

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there are many possible ways to approach any given task and what is

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best and most intuitive for one user may not be for another.

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These solutions videos demonstrate just one set of workflows that

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could be taken when working through these practice exercises.

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They are not intended to be step by step instructions but rather a

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guided tour of one user's approach and rationale in completing this exercise.

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There are a few settings that should be turned on to make sure

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that you can follow along with this solution on the status bar.

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I've turned on object snaps,

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object snap tracking, polar tracking and dynamic input.

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The first line we draw is drawn by using

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the hover technique where instead of picking a point,

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you acquire a point

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and use that as a reference, pulling your cursor away

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and then typing in a distance.

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We use a similar technique for the end of that first line

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and then use relative polar coordinates

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for the start of the next line.

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And polar tracking lets us end that line by snapping to an inferred

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intersection

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to create additional parking spaces.

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I selected the two new parking lines

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and activated a

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move grip edit

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using a copy option and choosing a base point which let me

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space the additional parking by using an end point object snap.

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Next, I used grips again this time by selecting multiple grips

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and stretching the grip points

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to an inferred intersection

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made possible by object snap tracking and polar tracking.

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And lastly selecting a dimension

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and taking advantage of multi function grips by hovering over one of the grips

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and stretching an entire row of dimensions

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with one grip stretch function.