At last, real rectangles in AutoCAD

You have been waiting for real rectangles in AutoCAD for years.
The wait is over!
Here is how it works:
Draw a floating viewport in paper space. Copy/paste it in Model space.
That's it!
You've got a real rectangle, you can change its length and heigth and its center in the properties window, and you can change its size by grip editing:

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how do you change the center of a rectangle?

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Patrick gave us a nice step by step instruction. (Thanks to P.) Read it.
Juergen

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In the properties window.

That's pretty cool, Patrick. Did your discovery begin with a mistake of some kind? (In the next version, they'll probably call it a new feature.)
After playing with it for a while, I've realized that you can specify whatever linetype you want, but these things are going to appear "continuous". Still, thanks for the tip.

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Using an appropriate plot style you can get any line type (at the paper).
Juergen

Even though it looks continuous on the screen?
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Yes - try it. In the paperspace on the screen it looks continuous, in the plot preview and finally on the paper it looks like defined in the plot style.
Juergen
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