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Using Stretch and Lengthen

Using Stretch and Lengthen - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using Stretch and Lengthen

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We're staying in our OfficeLayout3.dwg file and we're gonna take a look now at the lengthen and stretch commands. If you zoom in on the executive office, the bigger office here, you'll notice there's a little purple line just there like so, and that's our carpets boundary. You'll notice there when you hover over it, it's just a very simple line and it's on the carpets boundary. Now, what I'd like to do, if you just do a little bit of zooming and planning, is take this purple line all the way over to the wall edge here. Now I could use the extend command that we've covered previously, but I don't want to. I want to show you the lengthen command. That's up here on the modify panel, on the home tab on the ribbon. Click on the fly out there and just pin it open. It's a lot easier than the fly out part of the modify panel doesn't keep popping back into the ribbon. The lengthen command is this one here. And it always looks like an oil dipstick from a slightly older model car, I always…

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