Edit existing polylines in AutoCAD

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Let's talk about editing poly

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lines and some of the techniques we can use.

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First, let's talk about the P edit command.

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You can access this command by typing in p edit on the command line.

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You can also go to the home tab

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and on the modify panel,

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you can select the P edit or edit polyline button.

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A third way you can edit a poly line is to

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simply double click on it and then follow the command prompts.

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Notice the command line gives you an option to select polyline or multiple.

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Once you select the poly line,

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you have many command line options to choose from

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the first option

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which says close

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basically means you currently have an open poly line.

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If you want to close it,

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you can click on close notice. Now the option changes to open.

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The next option is join.

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Now, if we have individual lines that we want to become a poly line, we can use this

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to join the lines.

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If I explode the previously selected poly line,

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I can then use the P edit command.

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I could use multiple in this case

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and select all the line work

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that I had created,

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you are then prompted to convert to poly lines.

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And then if you use the join option,

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hit, enter for the fuzz distance,

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you then have used the join option

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to join all the individual segments into one poly line.

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The next option is the with option.

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If we select width, we can type in a value such as 20

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and just like that,

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you can see that it is instantly applied to the Polyline.

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Now that we've talked about most of the options for Polyline editing.

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Let's talk about multifunctional grips,

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multifunctional grips

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can be used

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to edit poly lines by simply hovering over the grip.

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Notice that line segments have grips for stretching,

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adding a vertex and converting to arc,

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arc segments have grips for stretching

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at a vertex

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and converting to line.