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Today, I'll show you some of the basic drawing functions and how to design a simple building

in different ways.

We have multiple options to design a building in our toolbox.

Let's start by choosing the two-point option, which is a great way to design simple rectangles.

The starting point can either be chosen by simply clicking left on the desired spot or

clicking right and entering the absolute coordinates.

We want to design a storehouse and start with the first part that is 80 times 80 meters

large.

I can enter the relative coordinates by clicking right.

Now we adapt the building height to 15 meters in the properties window.

To make our life easier, the snapping function helps us to select the building corners if

we move our mouse pointer close enough.

The snap distance can be adjusted in the CAD options.

Now we can draw the second part of our building by entering the relative coordinates of minus

100 to 20 meters.

Again we adapt the building height.

The third part of the building is now added with two simple additional clicks.

Let's draw the same building with a different drawing option.

We now select the point-by-point drawing function in our toolbox.

Our starting point is again the point of origin.

The additional blue line is a drawing support and is currently set to support 45-degree

intervals.

The intervals can be changed in the CAD options.

We can define the length of our first line with our mouse or by entering the length on

our keyboard.

Clicking escape terminates the active command and our first rectangle is completed.

The snapping function makes our last building part the easiest part.

The third and fastest drawing option is the contour tracing.

All we need is a 2D drawing with closed lines or areas which I have prepared in this second

document.

We select the contour tracing option in the toolbox, move with our mouse over the structure

and confirm by clicking left.

If the areas of our 2D drawing are not closed, the easiest way to draw the building is by

following the lines with the point-by-point drawing option.

Before drawing the arc, I can use the shortcut T to finish up the building.