Chapter 11. Advanced Geometry Editing

In Chapter 10, “Basic Object Editing,” you learned the basic commands and tools needed to make changes to existing objects. In this chapter, you build on that foundation and learn about the following topics:

• Using cut and paste

• Using drag and drop

• Grip editing commands

• Understanding the Object Properties Manager

• Using the Matchprop tool

• Using Quick Select

• Using object selection filters

• Creating and editing groups

• How to explode objects

• Specialized object editing

• Lengthening and shortening objects

• Aligning objects

• Renaming and purging named objects