Autodesk 00308-011408-9F30A User Guide - Page 155

To draw a rotated rectangle 1 On the Draw menu, click Polygon, Rotated Rectangle or click the Rotated Rectangle button on the All-In-One toolbar. 2 Click a point to define the first corner of the rectangle. A rubber-band line follows the pointer. 3 Click a second point to define the angle and width of the rectangle. A rubber-band rectangle follows the pointer. 4 Click a third point to define the height of the rectangle. Press and hold CTRL to skew, or slant, the rectangle. Drawing Clouds A cloud is a specialized irregular polygon that allows you to call attention to specific areas of a drawing. AutoSketch creates a cloud by connecting the vertices with bulged polyline segments. In operation, it is very similar to the Draw menu's irregular polygon command. As you draw a cloud, a text box for the segment width and bulge factor appear on the edit bar. Vertex editing allows you to change the shape of an existing cloud, and to add or delete vertices. For information on vertex editing, see the chapter titled "Reshaping Entities," which begins on page 299. Tools for drawing polygons can be accessed from the Draw menu or the Polygon toolset on the All-In-One toolbar. You can also activate the Polygon toolbar (which contains the same commands but can be docked anywhere on screen) by right-clicking a bar, then clicking Toolbars on the pop-up menu that appears. Just check the Polygon check box in the Toolbars dialog box, then click OK to make the Polygon toolbar visible on screen. Drawing Clouds | 145