Graphics Programs Reference
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6. Move the crosshairs to additional locations and click there if you want to make
additional copies.
7. Press Esc twice — once to end the copying operation and once to deselect all ob-
jects and remove all grips.
A warm-up Stretch
The STRETCH grip-editing mode works differently from the other modes. By default, it
affects only the object with the hot grip on it, not all objects with grips on them. You can
override this default behavior by using the Shift key to pick multiple grips and make
them hot. Follow these steps to get acquainted with using the STRETCH grip-editing
mode to stretch one or more objects:
1. Make sure that Ortho Mode is toggled off on the status bar by clicking the Ortho
Mode button until
<Ortho off>
appears on the command line.
Ortho mode forces stretch displacements to be
orthogonal
— that is, parallel to
lines running at 0 and 90 degrees. During real editing tasks, you'll often want to turn
on Ortho mode but while you get acquainted with stretching, leaving Ortho mode
off makes things clearer.
2. Select several objects, including at least one line.
3. On one of the lines, click one of the endpoint grips to make it hot.
All the objects remain selected, but as you move the crosshairs, only the line with
the hot grip changes. Figure 10-10 shows an example.
Figure 10-10:
Dragging a line's endpoint in the middle of the STRETCH grip-editing operation.
