Lesson 26 | Joining Objects

When you edit drawings, extra objects that are produced increase the overall size of the drawing and may complicate your drawing process.

Several situations can lead to incomplete or incorrect geometry such as broken line segments, arcs, or open polylines. Importing geometry from other programs or 2D geometry that originated in a 3D model could result in geometry that appears to be correct but, on closer examination, contains unwanted breaks. Use the Join command to fix these broken objects and combine them into single objects.

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Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Use the Join command to join ...

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