From the course: Learning AutoCAD 360
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Editing tools
- Unfortunately, no drawing is perfect and that every shape can be created with just the drawing tools. Over here we have some basic editing or modifying tools including Mirror, Offset, and Explode. I'm going to zoom in to the kitchen here and let's explore some of these tools. The Select mode is kind of the default mode and it allows me to simply select any object in the drawing. Here we can see this is a close polyline and assigned from the normal grips around the object. I also get the special grips just for AutoCAD 360. The substitute for the rotate and scale commands. Using this, I can rotate my object around or scale my object. However, this is slightly imprecise. To compensate for that, what we can do is select the object. Instead of clicking and dragging the grip, all I have to do is click and release on each grip. Then I can type in a specific value and press Return. The same works for the Rotate command. The Offset tool allows us to simply offset a copy of the object by a…
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