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Exploding elements

Exploding elements - AutoCAD Tutorial

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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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