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Stretching elements

Stretching elements - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Stretching elements

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When a design changes, you may be tempted to erase your line work and start over. Most of the time though, erasing isn't necessary. It can actually be faster to edit the geometry that you already have. In this lesson, we're going to look at the Stretch command. Stretch allows us to modify geometry by pushing and pulling it into any shape we need. On my screen I have an abstract example. I've got a shape that's 39 inches wide. It has a 5 inch notch that's been cut into it, 14 inches from the right side. Let's say that I'd like to add 3 inches to the right side of this object. Well, rather than offsetting and extending and trimming, it would be much faster to come up to the Modify panel and launch the Stretch command. The trick to using stretch is selecting your objects using a crossing window. . (SOUND) I'm going to click down here to the lower right. And I will pull up and create a crossing window around the end points that I want to move. Essentially, the Stretch command is an…

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