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Trim and Extend

Trim and Extend - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Trim and Extend

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- [Lecturer] Once again we're staying in our "ModifyingObjects.dwg" file, and we going to to have a little look now at trimming and extending some of the lines on our drawing. Just to tidy things up where we've created our internal wall partitions and also to make sure that things look neat and tidy on our drawing. There's nothing worse for example looking at a wall like this, and you've got these two little intersecting lines here. So, "Trim" and "Extend" are located on the "Modify" panel, on the "Home" tab on the ribbon, and they're up here. So if you click on the fly-out you can see "Trim" has the scissors and "Extend" has the little arrow. Older versions of AutoCAD don't have the scissors and the arrow, just so that you know. So we going to go to "Trim" first, so you click on the "Trim" command, come into the drawing area. Now, you have a choice with "Trim" and "Extend". With "Trim" you can select your cutting edges and then trim the objects back to the cutting edges, or you can…

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