AutoCAD 2005: One Step at a Time, Part I
This step-by-step text meets the updated requirements of AutoCAD 2005 and will help you get acquainted with tables, fields and sheet sets, as it provides many editing tools and useful drawing tricks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS AutoCAD 2005: One Step at a Time, Part I
Lesson 9: More Editing Tools
In Lesson 7 , we discussed several modification tools that make computer drafting easier. In this lesson, we ll see some more modifying tools also designed to speed and simplify the drafting process. To keep it simple, we ll use the same two groupings we began in Lesson 7 Location and Number and Change . Let s begin where we left off with the Location and Number group.
9.1 Location and Number
9.1.1 Parallels and Concentrics The Offset Command
The last modification tools we studied in Lesson 7 were the Copy command and the Multiple option of the Copy command. Offset gives us another way to create one or many copies of a single object (line, polyline, circle, arc, etc.). The copies will be either parallel (lines and polylines) or concentric (circles & arcs) to the existing object. The command sequence is
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Command: offset (or o )
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Specify offset distance or [Through] <1.0000>: [enter]
Select object to offset or
: [select the object to offset]Specify point on side to offset: select a point through which the copy should pass]
Select object to offset or
: [hit enter to complete the command]
The only option provided is an important one. The first Offset prompt asks you for an Offset distance or defaults to Through. Through allows you to select a point in the drawing through which the copy will pass. But...
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