From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 2 Drawing Fundamentals
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Trimming and extending geometry - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 2 Drawing Fundamentals
Trimming and extending geometry
Making a change in one object can often require the modification of other geometry in a drawing. Fortunately, AutoCAD has some tools to help us clean up line work after making changes. In this lesson, we'll look at the Trim and Extend commands. On my screen, I have a simple drawing. Let's make a change. I going to select this circle, and I'll come over to the properties panel and I'll change it's radius from 1.5 to 2.5. When I'm finished, I'll press Escape. Now, I've got a problem. These lines that used to meet the edge of the circle, now cross over. I'd like to trim these back to meet the new circle edge. To do this, I'll use the Trim command. Trim can be found in the Modify panel. The icon's right here. After launching the command, I will select my cutting object or objects and press enter. I can then select the objects that I'd like to trim. And notice how they get pulled back to meet that cutting object. When I'm finished, I'll press Enter. So when using trim, we use one object to…
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