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Drawing and Editing Objects

Using the Construct Menu

Press 4(Construct) to display the Construct menu. You can use the Construct menu to construct various types of geometric objects, such as a perpendicular bisector, parallel, angle bisector, etc.

uTo construct a perpendicular bisector

1. Draw a line segment and select it.

2. Perform the following operation: 4(Construct) – 1:Perp Bisector.

• This will draw the perpendicular bisector of the line segment you selected.

Note

You can perform a perpendicular bisector construct operation while a single line segment, one side of a polygon, or two points are selected on the screen.

uTo construct a perpendicular

1. Draw a line segment, plot a point, and select the line and point.

2. Perform the following operation: 4(Construct) – 2:Perpendicular.

This will draw a perpendicular to the selected line segment and passes through the selected point.

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