The Extend command

The Extend command works in a completely opposite way. It extends the drawing up to the selected boundary. The workflow of the extend command is also the same and in this case, you also need a boundary that another geometry will extend to:

Figure 2.67: A sample diagram for the extend command

To explain the extend command, I will use this diagram shown in the preceding figure. Here, we will extend the lines up to the next boundaries using different extend options:

  1. Type EX and press Enter, or click on the Extend tool from the Modify panel to start the extend command.
  2. Simply click on the line you want to extend. In this example, ...

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