Generating Elevations - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 512

Copying objects using Grips

Construction lines, like most other objects in AutoCAD, have a number of grips .
Selecting the construction line you just drew will make three grips (blue boxes)
appear. Grips can be used to modify objects in your drawing quickly and easily.
Among the possible operations using grips is the Copy function. You'll create
the remaining projection points using this method.

1. Select the construction line you just drew.
Three grips appear along the construction line: one at the inser-
tion point, and two more above and below it (see Figure 10.7).

the STRETCH
command is a
modifying tool that
you use to lengthen
or shorten lines
and other objects.
You'll have another
chance to use it
in Chapter 11,
“Working with
Hatches, Gradients,
and tool palettes.”

FiGuRE 10.7 Select the construction line dropped from the floor plan.

2. Click the middle grip on the construction line (this is the same point
you used to insert the construction line).
The grip changes color from blue to red, and the prompt changes to
Specify stretch point or [Base point/Copy/Undo/eXit]: . This
is the STRETCH command. Any time you activate a grip, the STRETCH
command automatically starts.

3. Right-click and choose Copy from the context menu.
This starts the COPY command, using the selected grip as the first
point.