From the course: AutoCAD 2015 Essential Training
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Breaking and joining
In this video we'll examine the break and join commands. Open the rooms sample file. And then expand the modify slide-out. Right here you'll find break and break at point. The first icon has two blue dots. That means you can break in two places on a line. The second icon, allows you to break at a single point. Let's try this one, break. It says select object. This command is unique in that the point that you select the object becomes the point at which you break the line. So if I click right here, it's going to break it there. And then it says specify second break point and I'll click over here and the command is done. The problem with this is that you can't use object snap at a select object prompt. So you can't really be very accurate. I'll show you another method for breaking with accuracy. I'll draw a couple of vertical lines here, and zoom in. And this time I'll use the command line version of the command. I'll just type b r for break, Enter. It says select object. I'll select…
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Selecting objects10m 12s
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Moving and copying8m 22s
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Rotating and scaling8m 11s
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Arraying objects8m 46s
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Offsetting and mirroring6m 48s
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Stretching and lengthening2m 40s
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Trimming and extending4m 38s
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Breaking and joining5m 10s
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Editing with grips4m 21s
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Creating boundaries and cleaning up4m 42s
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Performing Boolean operations on regions3m 49s
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Using the fillet, chamfer, and blend commands4m 41s
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Dividing and measuring6m 2s
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Editing polylines and splines6m 51s
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