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Polyline editing

Polyline editing - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Polyline editing

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- [Instructor] We've already created polylines using tools like rectangle and polygon as well as the polyline tool itself but now we should take a look at the polylines themselves so we can better understand how to modify them. I'm going to select my rectangle here and we can see that it's made up of smaller line segments that share vertices. We can select these endgrips here and stretch to form our shape. And we're left with a single polyline but we're no longer left with a rectangle. So I'm going to click undo and select the polyline again but this time I'm going to choose one of these midpoint grips here. If I drag it up, we can see that I'm left with more of a parallelogram shape. And if I hold down the shift key on my keyboard, I can lock this in and maintain the fact that it's a rectangle. Let's take a look at this polyline here that was created with the polyline tool itself. Just like the other polyline, I can grab the grips and modify them around however I like but there are…

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