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Stretching and lengthening
From the course: AutoCAD 2015 Essential Training
Stretching and lengthening
In this video I'll show you how to use the Stretch and Lengthen commands. Of the two, I find Stretch invaluable and Lengthen less so, but it's important to explore all the tools in your toolbox. So let’s take a look at Stretch. It's located right here. It says select objects. Now Stretch is unique amongst the modification commands, in that you need to select objects with a crossing window to use Stretch properly. Let's say we want to make this room bigger. We can stretch this wall over to the right. To do that, we need to select it with a crossing window. I'll click a point down here, and drag up to the left. The crossing window appears in green. I'll click to select all of those objects, and then press Enter to exit Selection mode. Now the command prompt says specify base point. I'll click some arbitrary point here in the middle of the room. Now I have ortho on right now. If I didn't have ortho on, the stretch would look something like this. It's not exactly what I want. I'll press…
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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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