At this point in your AutoCAD education, you know most of the commands and concepts required to create a presentation quality design drawing. In this chapter you will learn several different editing tools that will help you complete common editing tasks in a shorter period of time.
This chapter includes and discusses the following AutoCAD commands and concepts:
- Using the Properties Palette
- Using the Match Properties Command
- Using the Distance Command
- Using the Scale Command
- Cleaning your Drawing
- Using the Audit Command
- Using the Purge Command
- Express Tools
- Flatten your Drawing
- Delete Duplicate Objects in your Drawing
- Turn Off a Single Layer
- Turn On All Layers
- Isolating a Layer
- Freeze a Single Layer
- Thaw All Layers
- Lock a Single Layer
- Unlock All Layers
- Delete a Single Layer
- Merge Multiple Layers to One Layer
- Learning Exercise
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