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Leveraging grips

Leveraging grips - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Leveraging grips

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In this lesson, we're going to look at the most versatile tool AutoCAD has. I'm speaking about grips. Grips have been around since the earliest days of the software, and, with each new release, they continue to get additional features. In fact, using this one tool, we can do almost all of the editing functions that we've talked about so far. Let's take a look. First of all, let me say that grips are everywhere! If I select this geometry, take a look at all these little blue squares, these are grips. Each of these grips represents a point of control you have over a object, typically they show up at the location of the object snaps. If you press the escape key you'll deselect the objects and clear the grips. Let's start by zooming in on this line in the upper left corner. I'll click to select it and you can see the grips are showing up at the end points and the midpoint. I'm going to hover over this grip on the right side. When I do, you can see AutoCad is giving me some dimensional…

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