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object a contextual menu also appears, variety of edit toolbar buttons. It can also be
displaying the object’s edit tools. You can moved using dimensions. See “Moving
turn contextual menus on or off in the Objects Using Dimensions” on page 479,
Preferences dialog. See “Contextual “Line Panel” on page 300 and “Arc Panel”
Menus” on page 39. on page 309.
If a drawing tool is active and you right-click The Start and End points of a CAD-based
to select an object, you can unselect it by object’s selected edge or of a wall can be
left-clicking in an empty space in the indicated by an S and an E when the object is
drawing area. Although a drawing tool is selected. These Start and End indicators can
active, it is not used. If you then left-click a be helpful when editing the selected edge in
second time, the active tool will be used. the object’s specification dialog, and their
display can be turned on and off in the
Selected Edge Preferences dialog. See “Edit Panel” on
page 123.
When you click on a polyline- or box-based
object, the edge that you click nearest Disconnect Edges
becomes the selected edge and displays an
edit handle larger and of a different color Polyline-based objects are composed
than those on other edges. The handle on this of lines and arcs that are connected
edge may also display at the point where you end to end. The individual edges of open and
clicked to select it. You can specify the closed polylines can be selected and edited
Selected Edge Handle Fill color in the independently of the object’s other edges
Preferences dialog. See “Colors Panel” on when Disconnect Edges is in use. Select
page 107. CAD> Lines> Disconnect Edges t o

enable this ability.
Disconnect Edges also affects terrain
paths and molding polylines, but does not
affect Walkthrough Paths or closed polyline-
based objects such as slabs and roof planes.

To use Disconnect Edges

1. Select CAD> Lines> Disconnect
Selected edge with start and end indicators
Edges .
This edge can be edited on the SELECTED
LINE or SELECTED ARC panel of the object’s 2. Click on an individual edge of an eligi-
specification dialog, as well as using a ble polyline-based object to select it.

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