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AutoCAD and Its Applications—Basics
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CAUTION CA U TION
Exploding eliminates the original object properties, characteris-
tics, and associations. The need to explode objects is usually rare.
Exploding is only appropriate if no other command or option can
produce the desired effect.
Exercise 11-10
Complete the exercise on the companion website.
www.g-wlearning.com/CAD
Deleting Duplicate Objects
For information about using the
OVERKILL
command to remove
duplicate and/or unnecessary objects, go to the companion
website (www.g-wlearning.com/CAD), navigate to this chapter in
the
Contents
tab, and select
Deleting Duplicate
Objects.
Supplemental
Material
Figure 11-35.
Using the
EXPLODE
command to explode
a polyline. In this
example, the polyline
becomes two
consecutive arcs with
no polyline width or
tangency information.
Exploded polyline
lines and arcs occur
along the centerline of
the original polyline.
Original Polyline Exploded Polyline