From the course: AutoCAD 2020 Essential Training
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Explode command - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2020 Essential Training
Explode command
- [Instructor] We're staying in the ReusingContent.dwg file and you can see the blocks that we've already placed in the drawing, and, more importantly, created within the drawing as well. Now the explode command in AutoCAD is extremely useful if you want to explode a block reference back to it's original objects, perhaps edit those objects, and create a new block. Now what we're going to do, we're going to tidy up our drawing a little bit. We're going to utilize the explode command. So there's the explode command on the modify panel, like so. We click on explode, come into the drawing area, and select a block. So there's our block, and then we press Enter to confirm after selection, and you'll see that that is then exploded back to its original objects. So you can see there, just lines on the zero layer. What I'm going to do now is just select all of those and delete them. And let's do the same with the bolt as well, this one. So we can go to explode, you can click on the bolt, press…
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