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Trimming and extending

Trimming and extending

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Trimming and extending

- The Trim and Extend commands perform opposite functions. In this video you will use them both. Open the Rooms sample file and draw a line across both of the rooms, like this. Turn off ortho so that you can draw a diagonal line. Now let's locate Trim and Extend. They are located right here on this fly out. Choose Trim. It starts with a Select objects prompt, or you can optionally select all the objects in the drawing and I'll explain why you'd want to do that in a moment. But for now, let's select this object and then press enter. The next step is to select the object to trim. Or you can shift select to use the Extend command. I'm gonna click right here and that will trim off this part of the line. Now I can press enter or escape to finish the command. Let's try it again. Press enter to repeat the command and this time, press enter again to select all the objects in the drawing. This provides us with many different potential cutting edges. Now, we can click things we want to trim. I…

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