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, most on-the-board ...

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