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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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Selecting objects in your AutoCAD drawings6m 46s
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Using Move and Copy in your AutoCAD drawings4m 19s
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Using Rotate and Scale in your AutoCAD drawings6m 3s
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Using Mirror and Offset in your AutoCAD drawings6m 45s
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Using smart placement of blocks to your advantage2m 37s
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Using Break and Join in your AutoCAD drawings7m 17s
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Using grips and grip editing in your AutoCAD drawings5m 26s
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Using Boundaries with your AutoCAD drawings4m 14s
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Using Fillet and Chamfer on AutoCAD geometry4m 55s
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Using Divide and Measure for accurate drafting in AutoCAD9m 14s
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Editing polylines and splines quickly and accurately in AutoCAD8m 24s
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Using Trim and Extend for accurate and precise drafting in AutoCAD4m 11s
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Creating and using arrays in your AutoCAD drawings8m 27s
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Using Stretch and Lengthen to edit AutoCAD geometry5m 5s
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