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From: ah395@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey T. Hansen)
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Subject: Re: beginner's questions
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In a previous article, buster@ucsu.colorado.edu (Paul Buster) says:

>
>Hello netland, I have a couple of beginner's questions, my 
>dealer's support guys are out to lunch all week...

A common occurance ...

>2) if I have FILL OFF and use trace to make a rectangle,
>how do I get the last corner beveled ?
>

If you are trying to make a rectangle with another rectangle inside
which is what a trace drawn with fill off would produce, you should
produce a closed polyline rectangle, and then offset it towards the
inside to get the second figure.  Trace is a very old autocad command
that they hoped would be replaced with polylines.  Back in version
2.15, we used trace in the architectural world to draw walls, but
the bevelled corners aren't exactly attractive on a floor plan.

Basically, there's no way to produce a 4 sided, fully bevelled box
using trace, or polylines.  A polyline with width information doesn't
bevel the corners either.

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