Skip to Main Content
Introduction to AutoCAD® 2015: A Modern Perspective
book

Introduction to AutoCAD® 2015: A Modern Perspective

by Paul Richard, Jim Fitzgerald
September 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
936 pages
29h 22m
English
Peachpit Press
Content preview from Introduction to AutoCAD® 2015: A Modern Perspective

Chapter 7. Basic Editing Techniques

Chapter Objectives

Understand the difference between editing objects using the verb/noun technique and editing objects using the noun/verb technique

Use the ERASE command to remove objects from a drawing

Learn different ways to select one or more objects so that they can be modified

Group objects

Move objects

Copy objects

Mirror objects

Rotate objects

Scale objects

Stretch objects

Use grips to modify objects

Introduction

The ability to edit and modify objects quickly and with minimum effort is one of the keys to increasing your productivity when using AutoCAD. On the board, if a line is drawn in the wrong location, you must erase it and then redraw it in the correct location. In fact, ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Introduction to AutoCAD® 2017: A Modern Perspective

Introduction to AutoCAD® 2017: A Modern Perspective

Paul Richard
Discovering AutoCAD® 2015

Discovering AutoCAD® 2015

Mark Dix, Paul Riley

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780134271026Purchase book