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Editing Open Polyline Based Objects

• Click and drag a small, round edit handle • Click the Open Object edit button to
to increase or decrease the object’s width. open the specification dialog for the
By default, objects are resized in 1" selected object(s). See “Specification
increments. This Snap Unit is defined in Dialogs” on page 42.
the Plan Defaults dialog. See “General
Plan Defaults Dialog” on page 101. • Click the Copy/Paste edit button to
copy the selected object(s) to the system
Using Dimensions clipboard so they can be pasted else-
where. See “Copying and Pasting
Dimensions can be used to move or Objects” on page 176.
reshape polyline-based objects. See
“Moving Objects Using Dimensions” on • Click the Copy and Paste in Place
page 479. edit button to create a copy of the
selected object(s) at the same location as
Using Extension Line Snaps the original. See “Copy and Paste in
Place” on page 178.
Extension line snaps, especially tangent
snaps, can be useful when editing polyline • Click the Delete edit button to delete
vertices. See “Extension Snaps” on page 169. the selected object(s). See “Deleting
Objects” on page 283.
Using the Specification
Dialog • Click the Disconnect Selected Edge
edit button to disconnected the selected
Open polyline-based objects can be edge of the polyline, turning it into a sep-
edited using their specification arate object. See “Disconnect Edges” on
dialogs. See “Polyline Specification Dialog” page 214.
on page 314.
• Click the Transform/Replicate
Using the Edit Toolbar Object edit button to copy, move,
rotate, resize, or reflect the selected
A selected open polyline-based object can be object(s). See “Transform/Replicate
edited in a variety of ways using the buttons Object Dialog” on page 269.
on the edit toolbar.
• Click the Multiple Copy edit button
The following toolbar buttons may display to make a series of copies at set intervals.
on the edit toolbar for a selected open See “Multiple Copy” on page 179.
polyline-based object:
• Click the Make Parallel/Perpendicular
• Click the Select Next Object e d i t edit button to make the selected
button to select nearby objects instead of straight edge parallel or perpendicular to
the selected object. See “Selecting another straight edge. See “Using Make
Objects” on page 213.
Parallel/Perpendicular” on page 255. Not

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