AutoCAD® 2009 & AutoCAD LT® 2009 Bible

Chapter 10. Editing Your Drawing with Advanced Tools

This chapter completes the discussion, started in the previous chapter, of geometric editing commands—covering the more complex commands used to refine the details of your drawing. These commands enable you to copy, move, resize, break, and cover objects, as well as construct corners. I also discuss grips, which make it easy to move, mirror, rotate, scale, and stretch objects, and I explain how to use the Quick Properties panel and the Properties palette to edit objects. I end the chapter with a discussion of three ways to control the selection of objects—groups, filters, and the Quick Select feature.

Note

Although you can use the editing tools that I describe in this chapter in a 3D environment, this chapter assumes that you are working in a 2D environment, using the default 2D Drafting & Annotation workspace. (AutoCAD LT doesn't offer a 3D environment.) To make sure you're in a 2D environment, set the workspace to 2D Drafting & Annotation (from the Workspace Switching pop-up list on the status bar) and set the visual style to 2D Wireframe (Menu Browser

Copying and Moving Objects

Three commands enable you to copy objects in very specific ways. MIRROR creates a mirror image. ARRAY copies objects in a rectangular or circular pattern. OFFSET creates parallel objects. Although these commands make copies of objects, they produce a result ...