AutoCAD 2004. One Step at a Time (Part 1)

Overview

Following this lesson, you will:

• Know how to draw several lines at once with the MLine command

• Be able to create multiline styles with the MLStyle command

• Be able to edit multilines with the MLEdit command

Back in grade school, when I'd been naughty (and got caught), I was punished by being assigned to write "penance" sentences “ "I will be good in school," one hundred times. Oh! The degradations of childhood!

But in my childish attempts to cut corners (there were always ways to cut corners), I would tape four pencils together. Then I only had to "be good in school" twenty-five times!

Apparently, someone at Autodesk learned a similar childhood lesson. The result was the MLine command. The MLine command does just what taping four pencils together did “ it enables you to create more than one line at a time.

AutoCAD's multilines actually involve three commands: MLine, MLEdit, and MLStyle. The first actually draws the lines; the second enables you to edit, or change, the lines; the third enables you to define the lines.

In Lesson 12, we'll look at each.