POLYGON command
Creates a closed polyline in the shape of a polygon.
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Alias: POL
Description
Creates a closed polyline in the shape of an equal-sided polygon. Options allow you to specify the center, number of sides, edge length and angle, and the distance from the center to the vertex or midpoint of an edge.
Method
This command has 1 method to begin creating a polygon:
- Set number of sides
Options within the command
- Set number of sides
- Allows you to begin creating a polygon by specifying the number of sides between 3 and 1024.
- Set center of polygon
- Specifies the center point of the polygon.
- Select midpoint of side
- Specifies the location of the midpoint of a polygon line segment. The location of the midpoint defines the size and angle of the polygon.
- Width of line
- Specifies the width of the polygon line segments. All segments have the same width.
- Multiple Polygons
- Creates multiple polygons with the same size and orientation when using the Set center of polygon option. Continue placing polygons until you press Enter to end the command.
- specify by Edge
- Specifies the endpoints of one edge of the polygon to define its size and angle.
- specify by Vertex
- Specifies the location of a vertex of the polygon. The location of the vertex defines the size and angle of the polygon.