From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 3 Editing and Organizing Drawings
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Exploding elements - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 3 Editing and Organizing Drawings
Exploding elements
In this lesson we're going to look at a command, that sounds more dangerous than it really is. The command I'm talking about is called explode. Explode will convert a group of associated objects, back into their individual components. On my screen I have several objects. This entity on the left is a polyline, this was created using the rectangle command. If I select this, you can see AutoCad views it as a single object. I'll press Escape to deselect. Let's explode this polyline. The Explode command, can be found in the modify panel of the ribbon. After launching the command, I'll select my polyline, and press Enter. And nothing spectacular happens on screen. If however I attempt to select this again. You can see that Autocad, has converted this polyline back into individual line segments. Take a look at this hatch. If I select this, autocad views this as a single object. I'm going to move up and launch explode, I'll select the hatch, and press enter. And we can see that each of these…
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Creating fillets5m 9s
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Creating chamfers4m 43s
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Creating a rotational array5m 49s
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Creating a rectangular array5m 4s
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Stretching elements4m 28s
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Creating mirrored copies4m 12s
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Scaling elements4m 53s
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Leveraging grips10m 7s
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Exploding elements5m 7s
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Joining elements together3m 33s
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Editing hatch patterns3m 40s
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