Working with Grips
1,385 viewsGrips are small b
oxes that appear on a certain points of an objects selected by a selecting with a pointing device. Just by dragging these grips you can perform any operations, such as stretch, move, rotate, scale, mirror and as well as copy. With grips you can combine command and object selection and therefore you can modify your drawings more quickly.
Just select the objects you want before entering a command, and from then on you can manipulate the objects with the cursor. By default grips are always turn on, but you can always turn it off if you prefer not to use grips, just by typing command grips at the command prompt, and enter 0 for the new value.
To use grips, select a grip to act as basepoint for the action. Then select one of the grip modes and hit the enter key or right-click to see all the available options. From then just select what action you want to perform.
March 5th, 2009 at 5:04 am |
[...] You can also move the dimension text to the right, left or center along the dimension line or to any position outside extension lines (fig.4). A quick and simple way to do this is by using GRIPS. [...]
March 5th, 2009 at 3:20 pm |
[...] DIMJOGLINE is an AutoCAD command that can create a breakline symbol like object, that can be use in a linear dimension line. Jog symbol are used to represent a dimension value that does not the actual measurement of an object. Typically, the actual measurement value of the dimension is smaller than the displayed value. Once you already made the JOG symbol you can modify it’s position by using GRIPS. [...]
April 20th, 2009 at 12:45 pm |
[...] or to any position outside extension lines (fig.4). A quick and simple way to do this is by using GRIPS. Alternatively you can also use the DIMTEDIT command or at the command prompt, type DIM, then TE, [...]
April 20th, 2009 at 12:46 pm |
[...] DIMJOGLINE is an AutoCAD command that can create a breakline symbol like object, that can be use in a linear dimension line. Jog symbol are used to represent a dimension value that does not the actual measurement of an object. Typically, the actual measurement value of the dimension is smaller than the displayed value. Once you already made the JOG symbol you can modify it’s position by using GRIPS. [...]
April 20th, 2009 at 3:02 pm |
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July 22nd, 2009 at 8:33 pm |
[...] DIMJOGLINE is an AutoCAD command that can create a breakline symbol like object, that can be use in a linear dimension line. Jog symbol are used to represent a dimension value that does not the actual measurement of an object. Typically, the actual measurement value of the dimension is smaller than the displayed value. Once you already made the JOG symbol you can modify it’s position by using GRIPS. [...]