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Osnap mode Geometric Center in AutoCAD 2016.

One of the new features in the AutoCAD 2016 family is the new osnap mode "geometric center" (GCEN). This osnap returns cooridinates of the center of any closed line object (polyline). So you can easily draw connection lines between object centers, or draw centered labels in symbols, parcels, etc.

You can enable the geom. center mode through the status line icon, invoke it with the predicate GCEN, or preset it using the system variable OSMODE (bit-value 1024). Note the different osnap symbol (glyph) from the circle center osnap.

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applies to: AutoCAD 2016 · AutoCAD LT 2016 · AutoCAD Architecture 2016 · Civil 3D 2016 · AutoCAD Plant 3D 2016 ·

See also:
Tip 14088:	3 methods of creating true rectangles in AutoCAD.
Tip 13185:	Constraining object movement to a specified curve (rail) in AutoCAD.
Tip 13158:	ScaleBB - scale multiple objects to their ref.points or bounding boxes
Tip 12836:	How to suppress snapping when inserting symbols and families in Revit?
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