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Creating a feature line from an object

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Creating a feature line from an object

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- [Instructor] In our previous exercise, we created a future line from scratch. But in this exercise, we're going to focus on being able to convert existing objects into a feature line and see if this is faster than some of the options, of course, as we do this. Now let's go to our exercise. It's 12-0-3-FL or feature line object. We have the existing polyline already drawn in, using standard AutoCAD methods. And so from the home ribbon, create design panel, under feature line on the middle left, we're going to choose to create feature line from objects. When we do so, it presents a list of all the different objects we can convert into a feature line. We have lines, arcs, polylines, 3D polylines. And I love the option. We can even grab objects through an xref and then create a converted version of that object in this drawing as a feature line. We're just going to select this polyline here. Press enter to end the selection and again, we've already looked through this, so we of course…

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