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Modify Simple Items. Selection Modes. Multiplying Commands: Assoc. Prof Eng Simona Sofia Duicu PHD

The document discusses selection modes and modifying commands in AutoCAD. It describes the different selection modes available, including single, auto, previous, remove, add, undo, last, all, window, crossing, wpolygon, cpolygon, fence, group, and multiple. It then explains several modifying commands - copy, mirror, offset, array, rotate, erase, move, align - and the parameters required for each. These commands allow multiplying, positioning and modifying selected objects in various ways.

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Modify Simple Items. Selection Modes. Multiplying Commands: Assoc. Prof Eng Simona Sofia Duicu PHD

The document discusses selection modes and modifying commands in AutoCAD. It describes the different selection modes available, including single, auto, previous, remove, add, undo, last, all, window, crossing, wpolygon, cpolygon, fence, group, and multiple. It then explains several modifying commands - copy, mirror, offset, array, rotate, erase, move, align - and the parameters required for each. These commands allow multiplying, positioning and modifying selected objects in various ways.

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Modify simple items.

Selection modes. Multiplying


commands
Assoc. prof eng Simona Sofia Duicu phD
Selection modes AutoCAD request a selection session for all the modify commands. This selection can be done outside the modify command with a with the
grips, or inside the modify command. Selection modes are:
• Single, for a unique item,
• Auto, for an auto selection of the items,
• Previous, for using the previous selected items,
• Remove, for extraction or removing some items from the selection (the “Select objects” prompter is replaced by “Remove objects”),
• Add, for adding some items to the selection,
• Undo, for cancelling the previous selection,
• Last, for select the last drawn or inserted item,
• ALL, for selecting all the items
• Window, for a rectangular window in which are
selected all the items completely included in this window,
• Crossing, for a rectangular window in which are
selected all the items included and crossed by this window,
• WPolygon, for a polygonal window in which are
selected all the items completely included in this window,
• CPolygon for a polygonal window in which are selected
all the items included and crossed by this window,
• Fence, for selecting the items crossed by a broken line,
• Group, for selecting a group of items (requests the name
of the group),
• Multiple, for a multiple selection.
Multiplying commands
For all this commands, an item or some items considered the original, are multiplied in different ways. Copies may be independent from the original,
have the same measure, geometry and some times, the same orientation.
“Copy” command from “Modify” menu requests the selection of the original, a reference point named “base point” (P1) and the new position of the
copied item (P2). “Multiple” option of this command allowed multiple copies.
“Mirror” command from “Modify” menu requests the selection of the original, two points (P3 and P4) defining the mirror line, and an option for
deleting or not the original called “source”.
“Offset” command from the “Modify” menu requests the selection of the original (only a single item), distance between the original and the parallel
copy, or the through point in witch will be placed the copy, and finally, the side in which will be placed the copy. In the figure bellow, for the arcs the
original is in the middle, and P5 and P6 represents the sides in witch are placed the copies. The arcs are concentric, and the lines realized with “Offset”
command, are parallel.
A rectangular “Array” disposes the copies in the cells of a matrix and requests the number of columns and rows, distance between columns and between
the rows, angle made by the matrix with the horizontal axe. An important aspect of “Array” command is the associativity: if this option is turned on, all
copies and the original have the same behaviour (they are selected like a single entity).
A polar “Array” disposes copies the on an arc and requests total number of items and included angle of the displacement arc, total number and angle
between items, or included angle and angle between items. It is also requested the center of this arc. The “Rotate items” option allouds to rotate or not the
items around the center of multiplication.
Position modifying commands

“Erase” command from “Modify” menu realizes the disappearance of the selected items.
“Move” command from “Modify” menu realizes the shifting of the items in any direction without dimension or orientation modifications. It is
requested a selection of the items, a reference point called “base point” and the new position of this point in which will be placed the items.
“Rotate” command from “Modify” menu realizes the rotation of the selected items. A point specified like “base point” will be the center of the
rotation. The modification of the items position will be possible by introducing the angle or another option called “reference”. This option request a
delay angle relative the “X” axe, and the reference angle; the result will be the rotation in clockwise with an angle equal to the difference between the
reference angle and the delay angle . “ANGDIR” and “ANGBASE” are two system variables that specify the rotation sense and the delay angle (default
equal to zero).

“Command: rotate Current positive angle in UCS: ANGDIR=counterclockwise ANGBASE=0 Select objects: 1 found
Specify base point: int of Specify rotation angle or [Reference]: 75
Command: rotate Current positive angle in UCS: ANGDIR=counterclockwise ANGBASE=0 Select objects: 1 found
Specify base point: Specify rotation angle or [Reference]: r
Specify the reference angle <0>: 15 Specify the new angle: 90”
“Align” command from “Modify” menu for “3D Operations” realizes a combination of “Move”, “Rotate” commands, and some time even a scaling of the
selected items. The syntax of this command is:
“Command: align Select objects: c
Specify first corner: Specify opposite corner: 16 found
Specify first source point: P1
Specify first destination point: P3
Specify second source point: P2
Specify second destination point: P4
Specify third source point or <continue>: Scale objects based on alignment points? [Yes/No] <N>:“

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