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Editing Spline Based Objects

Same Line Type
• Drag a diamond-shaped end handle in
any direction to draw a new spline seg- • If two tangent lines pass through a vertex,
ment that shares the original spline’s the angle between them remains constant
color, weight, line style, and layer. See as long as Lock Control Handle Angle
“Same Line Type Edit Handles” on page is enabled. See “Lock Control Handle
299. Angle” on page 244.
Advanced Splines
Using the
Additional edit handles, called Control
Handles, display beside each spline vertex Specification Dialog
when Advanced Splines is enabled. See Spline-based objects can be edited
“Advanced Splines” on page 243. using their specification dialogs. See
“Polyline Specification Dialog” on page 314.
Control
Handles Using the Edit Toolbar

A selected spline-based object can be edited
in a variety of ways using the buttons on the
edit toolbar.
The following toolbar buttons may display
on the edit toolbar for a selected spline-based
object:
Tangent lines
through the vertex • Click the Select Next Object edit
button to select nearby objects instead of
• Click and drag a round Control edit han- the selected object. See “Selecting
dle to change the angle of the associated Objects” on page 213.
tangent line.
• Click the Open Object edit button to
open the specification dialog for the
selected object(s). See “Polyline
Specification Dialog” on page 314.
• Click the Copy/Paste edit button to
copy the selected object(s) to the system
clipboard so they can be pasted else-

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