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Using Stretch and Lengthen to edit AutoCAD geometry

Using Stretch and Lengthen to edit AutoCAD geometry - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using Stretch and Lengthen to edit AutoCAD geometry

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- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our OfficeLayout_3.dwg file, and I've left the drawing in the same state as it was at the end of the last video. So let's zoom out slightly, pan upward a bit, and zoom into the actual office area of the drawing now. We're going to be taking a look at how we use the stretch and lengthen commands to modify geometry in our AutoCAD drawings. Now if you look at the office area here, you can see there's a little line just there, and that line is on the layer Carpets, and it's going to be the carpet line for these cubicles here, one, two, and three. But I need to take that line all the way to this wall over here. Now I could use extend. We've looked at extend previously. I want to show you a different command that you can utilize, and it's called lengthen. Go to the home tab on the ribbon and on the modify panel here, click on the flyout, and just pin the modify panel open. Now the lengthen command is this one here. It looks like a little sort of…

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