AutoCAD 2002 ReferencePoint Suite
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TABLE OF CONTENTS AutoCAD 2002 ReferencePoint Suite
Point 3: Modifying Drawings
Deepak Maini
AutoCAD 2002 provides a variety of tools for editing and modifying sketches. Basic editing techniques include operations such as move, copy, trim, extend, rotate, scale, and offset. Advanced editing techniques include operations such as editing by double-clicking, working with grips, and matching the properties of sketches. Modifying techniques allow you to change the original shape or create a mirrored image of a sketch.
| Note | The recent releases of AutoCAD include the editing by double-clicking feature. This feature was not available in previous releases. |
This ReferencePoint describes the basic and advanced tools that you can use to edit sketches and the modifications that you can make to sketches.
Basic Sketch Editing
You need to use basic editing tools, such as moving, copying, trimming, extending, rotating, scaling, and offsetting sketches, to modify entities in sketches. For example, in an architectural drawing, if doors and windows are all the same size and have the same orientation, you can create one object and then copy it to other locations.
You may also need to modify the size and orientation of some of the entities in the drawing by trimming, extending, scaling, and rotating the drawing.
You can perform basic editing operations using the command prompt, the Modify menu, or the Modify toolbar. This ReferencePoint uses the Modify menu method when describing how to use a command.
You can also use the grips on a sketched entity or double-click a sketch to perform advanced editing.
Moving Sketches
While working on a drawing, you...
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