Chapter 11
Edit for Credit
IN THIS CHAPTER
Moving, copying, and stretching objects
Manipulating whole objects
Changing pieces of objects
Fixing your mistakes — oops, I mean changing your mind
Grip editing
In Chapter 10, you can see that AutoCAD offers several methods of modifying objects in drawings. You can see how to select objects so that you can edit them. Now it’s time to roll up your sleeves and get dirty. In this chapter, I introduce you to the primary editing commands in AutoCAD.
The following sections cover the most important editing commands in AutoCAD, using command-first editing mode. AutoCAD calls commands that edit modify commands.
As I explain in Chapter 10, command-first editing (or verb-noun editing, in AutoCAD-ese) is one of three approaches to modifying objects in AutoCAD. I concentrate on this method, where you start a command and then pick the objects on which ...
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