TABLE OF CONTENTS I've been using AutoCAD for more than 15 years (I started when I was 10), and over the course of upgrades and revisions, I've stumbled across many an obscure feature, shortcut, and so forth. I'm going to cover a few of these features, most of which you should be able to use in Release 14, AutoCAD 2000 through 2002, and even AutoCAD LT. Some of these functions you already know, but I'll be happy if you finish this chapter with one good nugget of information that makes your daily AutoCAD life just a little bit better. I'm going to dabble in a little bit of everything, with little or no rhyme or reason, so hold on!
I'm sure most of you have thrown the antiquated change command by the wayside now that more powerful commands such as properties have come along. However, the plain old change command can do something no other command can do and in very few steps. Have you ever needed to extend a series of parallel lines to a specific point on the screen? You can use the extend command if you have a boundary edge, and even then you have to select and extend each object one at a time. The change command allows you to extend without a boundary.
Draw four or more parallel lines on the screen, as shown in Figure 19.1. The goal is to...
