RECTANG — Rectangle

Creates a rectangle from two opposite corners.

• Command: RECTANG · Global name: _RECTANG · Alias: REC, RECTANGLE
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Draws a rectangle with its sides parallel to the X and Y axes of the current UCS from two opposite corners. The rectangle is a closed polyline with four vertices.

Usage

1. Enter RECTANG (or REC) or click Rectangle.
2. Specify the first corner.

Specify first corner point or [Chamfer/Elevation/Fillet/Thickness/Width]:

3. Specify the opposite corner, with a click or with relative coordinates: @40,25 draws a 40 × 25 rectangle.

Specify other corner point or [Area/Dimensions/Rotation]:

Options

Before the first corner:

• Chamfer: two distances (the first counts on the side that arrives at each corner). Fillet: radius. One cancels the other.
• Elevation, Thickness (extrusion height) and Width (line width).

Specify first chamfer distance for rectangles <…>:

After the first corner:

• Area: the area and the length or width; the rectangle is created at once, up and to the right.
• Dimensions: length and width; the opposite corner gives the quadrant.
• Rotation: rotation of the rectangle (an angle, or a point giving the direction).

Notes

• The two corners must have different X and different Y (in the UCS). With a rotated UCS (see UCS), the rectangle is rotated with it.
• The Chamfer, Elevation, Fillet, Thickness and Width modes are remembered for the next rectangles (as in AutoCAD). With chamfer or fillet the rectangle has eight vertices; if they do not fit the sides, it is drawn plain.
• As it is a polyline, it is edited with PEDIT and exploded into four lines with EXPLODE.

See also

PLINE · POLYGON · PEDIT · Coordinates and input