Developing Drawing Strategies: Part 1 - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 128

FiGuRE 4.39 Creating the interior openings: the offset lines that locate the jamb lines
(top left), the extended lines that form the jamb lines (top right), and the completed openings
after trimming (bottom)
When you are finished, save this drawing as 04A-FPLAY4.dwg . This completes
the openings. The results should look like Figure 4.40.
FiGuRE 4.40 The completed doorway openings
As you gain more control over the commands you used here, you'll be able
to anticipate how much of a task can be accomplished with each use of a com-
mand. Each opening required offsetting, extending, and trimming. It's possible
to do all the openings using each command only once. In this way, you do all
the offsetting, then all the extending, and finally all the trimming. In cutting
these openings, however, the arrangement of the offset lines determined how