Grips are small boxes 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.