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Reshaping Objects

3. Click on the corner edit handle To use Intersect/Join Two Lines
associated with the break that you want
to remove and drag it to an adjacent 1. Click on a line, arc, or polyline segment
corner handle. that you would like to connect to another
line or segment.
4. When you see an Endpoint s n a p
indicator, release the mouse button. The 2. Click the Intersect/Join Two Lines
hande that you selected will be removed. edit button.
3. Click on the other line or polyline edge.
Change Line/Arc 4. If there are intervening polyline edges, a
Select an individual line-based or arc- message will confirm that you would
based object or a segment of a like them to be removed. Click Yes.
polyline-based object and click the Change
Line/Arc edit button to convert the selected
segment from a line to an arc or vice versa.

Fillet Lines

The Fillet Lines edit tool allows you
to replace the angled corner where
two polyline edges meet with an arc or to
join two non-parallel line-based objects with
Make Parallel/Perpendicular an arc.

The Make Parallel edit button can be If one or both of the two objects is an arc,
used to reshape a polyline by making both will extend or contract as needed to
a selected edge parallel or perpendicular to become connected. No additional arc is
another straight edge. See “Using Make created.
Parallel/Perpendicular” on page 255.
To use Fillet Lines
Intersect/Join Two Lines
1. Click on a line or polyline segment that
The Intersect/Join Two Lines edit you would like to connect to another line
tool allows you to connect two non- or segment with a fillet, or arc.
parallel line- and/or arc-based objects or to
join two edges of an open or closed polyline- 2. Click the Fillet Lines edit button,
based object. The lines or edges will shorten then click the Fillet Radius edit but-
or lengthen as need to intersect at a point and ton.
join. If one or more edges exists between the
two polyline edges, they will be removed.

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