In the previous three chapters you learned the AutoCAD equivalent to many skills you already knew from your experience with manual drawing. The concepts and commands in this chapter will be new to you if you have not previously used a digital drawing program. That said, you will use the commands in this chapter more frequently than any other commands discussed in this book.
This chapter includes and discusses the following AutoCAD commands and concepts:
- Drawing Polylines
- Using Grips
- Editing Polylines (PEDIT)
- Trimming Lines
- Extending Lines
- Offsetting Lines
- Filleting Lines
- Using the Rectangular Array Command
- Using the Polar Array Command
- Using the Break Command
- Exploding Lines and Objects
- Learning Exercise
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