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Using grips and grip editing

Using grips and grip editing - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using grips and grip editing

- Once again, we're staying in our modifyingobjects.dwg file and we're going to have a look now at grips and grip editing. Now, we can actually use grips to edit lines when we draw lines on a plan like we've got here in our modifyingobjects.dwg file. I've left the drawing in the same state as it was at the end of the last video. In fact, like before, I've left the modify flyout menu pinned open. Now we don't actually need that open at the moment so I can unpin that and you'll see that the flyout menu quite happily jumps back into the ribbon there. Now in the previous video, what we did was we joined some lines together, didn't we? These lines here forming the lower wall of the corridor which is the access corridor for this group of offices. Now, in creating that wall, we've blocked the opening here to the lift shaft. So we're going to zoom in, get in nice and close this time, so that we can see the edges of the doors and more importantly, you need to be able to see these lines here as…

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