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AutoCAD For Dummies, 19th Edition
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AutoCAD For Dummies, 19th Edition

by Ralph Grabowski
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
544 pages
15h 31m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 11

Edit for Credit

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Moving, copying, and stretching objects

Bullet Manipulating whole objects

Bullet Changing pieces of objects

Bullet Fixing your mistakes — oops, I mean changing your mind

Bullet Grip editing

In Chapter 10, you can see that AutoCAD offers several methods of modifying objects in drawings. You can see how to select objects so that you can edit them. Now it’s time to roll up your sleeves and get dirty. In this chapter, I introduce you to the primary editing commands in AutoCAD.

The following sections cover the most important editing commands in AutoCAD, using command-first editing mode. AutoCAD calls commands that edit modify commands.

Remember As I explain in Chapter 10, command-first editing (or verb-noun editing, in AutoCAD-ese) is one of three approaches to modifying objects in AutoCAD. I concentrate on this method, where you start a command and then pick the objects on which ...

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