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Editing polylines and splines quickly and accurately in AutoCAD

Editing polylines and splines quickly and accurately in AutoCAD - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD 2026 Essential Training

Editing polylines and splines quickly and accurately in AutoCAD

- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our officelayout_2.dwg file. Now in this particular video, we're going to be taking a look at polylines in more depth and also splines. Now a spline in AutoCAD is an irregular curve, and you'll see how splines work in a moment. Now what we're going to do is, we're going to utilize the polyline command and also the polyline edit command, first of all. Now you'll remember we've got these two desks here, this one here, and this one here in our reception area in our little office. So we're going to zoom in on those first. Get in nice and close so that you can see what you're doing. Now what we're going to do is, we're going to explode these polylines into their original line and arc segments. So select this desk first, like so. Home tab on the ribbon, modify panel, and you're going to click on this command here, explode. Now, that will explode it back to its original arcs and line segments. Can you see that? And we're going to do the same to…

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