Drawing rectangles

You can construct rectangles:

• As horizontal/vertical rectangles . The sides of a horizontal/vertical (HV) rectangle are either parallel or perpendicular to the coordinate axes.
• From line segments . You can construct a rectangle by using a line segment as one of its sides.

Notes

• When you are in a continuous drawing mode, you need not cancel the current mode to begin drawing rectangles. If you switch from drawing lines to drawing rectangles, you begin drawing a rectangle from the last line you have drawn.
• When during drawing a HV rectangle you enter a value in Dx or Dy and then move to the next edit box, the rectangle preview is restricted according to the set value. Consider the following example:

If you position the first point of a HV rectangle, in Dx enter a value of 100 mm, and then press TAB to move to Dy, when you point to define the location of the second vertex point of the rectangle, the rectangle preview is restricted by the defined Dx of 100 mm. To drag the object preview freely again, in Dx or Dy, enter 0.00, and then press TAB to move to the next edit box.

The zero-value rule applies only for distance values.