Overview

The previous chapter contained information about how to perform the basic editing tasks by clicking objects. In addition to those editing features, you can use editing tools and commands that are unique to CAD drawing.

This chapter provides information on the editing tools in the Modify toolbar. These tools do everything from joining line endpoints, to extending objects to meet other objects, to breaking objects in two. In this chapter, you ll also learn how to edit blocks and external references (xrefs), which are collections of objects that act like a single object. And since polylines are fairly complex, they have their own editing tools, which you ll learn about toward the end of this chapter.

The topics in this chapter are organized by the following tasks.

• Selecting Objects

• Erasing Objects

• Joining Objects

• Moving and Copying

• Scaling, Stretching, and Rotating

• Breaking an Object into Two

• Editing Xrefs and Blocks

• Editing Polylines

Selecting Objects

If you read the previous chapter, you know that you can select objects by clicking them or by clicking a blank area to start a selection window. Once objects are selected in this way, you can use grips to make changes to your selection.

But you can also select objects in another way. Most of the tools in the Modify toolbar or menu present the Select objects: prompt. When you see this prompt, you can use the methods shown in Chapter 4, plus some additional options that give you...