- [Instructor] Once again,
we're in our Office Layout two.dwg file.
And you can see I'm zoomed out slightly
where we placed the plants in the previous video.
Also the drawer panel is still pinned out.
So I'm just going to unpin that.
And I can go back into the ribbon.
I'm going to double click on the wheel just to zoom extent.
Now we're going to take a look at editing poly lines
and splines now.
Now you'll remember we place some fillets
and chamfers on these desks here
in the reception area of the office.
We're going to zoom in on those again.
So I'm going to put my crosshead just over the chair there,
roll up on the wheel
and zoom in a few notches like so.
We're going to look at editing poly lines.
Now the trick here is really really easy.
We're going to select these poly lines
like this first.
There they are.
You can see they're both poly lines.
And I'm going to go up to the modify panel.
And what I'm going to do
is I'm going to explode the poly lines.
Now they're back to their original arcs and lines.
And also over here obviously the chamfs
are just lines as well.
Because what we're going to do,
we're going to update the drawing slightly.
What we've realized is in the design of the office
there are no plug sockets in the walls
for these desks.
So we're going to pop a little integrated plug socket area
at the edge of each desk where up against the wall.
But to do that,
we need to edit the poly lines first.
So what we're going to do
is we're literally just going to grab this little line here
and we're going to right click
and we're going to go to move.
And we're just going to pick a corner
and move vertically upwards up the polar tracking line.
You can go as far up the polar tracking line as you like
and just type 150 and press enter.
And can you see, it moves that line up by 150.
We're going to do the same with this one.
Select this line here.
And again it's a right click,
move, pick a corner like that and just move upwards.
And it's 150 again.
Type in the distance,
don't forget and press enter.
So there's our little space now
for our little sort of plug sockets
and USB sockets and so on.
Before we do that though
we need to trim these back.
So we're just going to go to the trim command
on the modified panel there.
So there's trim,
click on trim.
And we're just going to trim out here
and here like so.
Just tidy up those lines,
like that.
And then press enter to finish.
Now we need to do the poly line editing
because we want these to be poly lines again.
Very quick and easy to poly line edit,
just type PE as a keyboard shortcut
and you can see PE P edit comes up on the suggestion menu.
It's just a case of pressing enter
and then selecting a poly line.
Now we don't have any poly lines.
So if I selected this line here,
it'll prompt me.
Do I want to turn it into a poly line?
Well yes of course I do.
So press enter to accept the prompt.
Then the menu comes up
and you select join.
Now as a fail safe.
I always select all of the segments
that I want to become the poly line
including the original one
that I clicked on.
I then press enter to finish like so.
I press enter again
and that closes the poly line edit command.
And your notice now,
we're back to being a poly line.
Let's do the same with the other desk as well.
So it's PE for poly line edit
and enter.
You select either an arc or a line.
I'm going to go for an arc there.
Do I want to turn that into a poly line?
Well yes I do.
So I press enter to accept the prompt.
And I select join again like so.
And again just select all the arcs
and the line segments that you need
to become the poly line.
Very quick and easy
there's not many things to select
and press enter.
Enter again to close poly line edit.
And now we have another poly line here.
We're now going to jump to the layer dropdown
on the layers panel,
and we're going to select electrical.
And then we're just going to add some little rectangles here.
Now we're going to use a little bit
of object snap tracking as well.
Very very easy to do.
We're going to go to the rectangle command on the draw panel
which is there.
And what I'm going to do.
I'm going to select this corner here like so.
And then as I come across
can you see there's my rectangle.
Just hover over that end point
and come vertically downwards
you'll get an intersection,
left click.
And there's our little electrical panel
that allows us to have plug sockets,
USB sockets, a network port
all that kind of thing.
Now I don't have to draw that rectangle again.
I can select that one.
And it's a case of right click
and copy selection.
Pick a corner.
I'm going to go for that corner there, the end point snap
and just drop it over there and then enter to finish.
So when we zoom out slightly
you can see we've done a little bit
of poly line editing there
and we've got our little electrical area,
where we can plug in our monitor
and charge our phone, et cetera.
We're now going to go back to the plants layer
on the layer dropdown.
Make sure that you go onto the right layer first time.
And I'm going to go to the draw fly out here again.
Click on the draw fly out
and pin it open again.
We're going to take a quick look at editing a spline.
Now there's two types of spline.
There's this one here spline fit.
And there's this one here, spline CV,
which has control vertices.
Now we're going to go for this one,
the spline fit.
And I'm going to show you why.
Click on spline fit.
Come into the drawing area
and go from the end here.
Now you might want to get the end point of the line.
So just do a shift on a right click
to bring up your snap overrides.
And we're going to go endpoint there
and get the end point on the line.
So zoom in a bit
and you want to get that end point just there,
left click.
Zoom out again.
And as we come out now,
can you see when I start clicking,
I can get a nice little curvy line.
So this might be sort of like
a membrane barrier or something.
And then we come over to here,
get that point there.
There's an intersection there.
It might be an endpoint as well.
Doesn't matter which one it is.
Just left click again
and ends to finish.
So we've now got a little
sort of membrane thing going on there.
And what we might do
is a little bit of crazy planting along that membrane.
So we could potentially space
some shrubs along if we wanted to.
Now it's a little bit of a radical spline at the moment.
It's quite sharp and edgy.
So if I select that,
I can just click on the grips
and I can just ease this off a bit
and ease off the curve you'll notice.
Can you see that?
So it's just a case of clicking
on the grip, drag and click again.
And just sort of flatten it out a little bit.
So it's not so radical like that.
You might also want to do that grip there a little bit
like that.
And then just press escape
a couple of times to deselect.
And we've got a nice sort of slightly curvy boundary there.
So if I zoom out now,
can you see between our bin store and our path?
We've got that nice sort of faded curvy thing going on
where we could possibly plant some more shrubs.
So you can see how quick and easy it is
to edit a spine as well.
Just literally click on it.
And as you can see,
you can obviously click on those grips
to your heart's content.
You'll also notice there's this triangle here.
If I click there,
I can go to a control vertices spline.
So if I change that and zoom in,
can you see we've now got our control vertices.
And if I click on those,
can you see, I can move those?
And I can also edit the spline if I want to.
Notice again, I can just click here
and go back to a spline fit if I want to
and just use the grips as well.
Here is going to deselect
and in good CAD practice,
let's just double click on the wheel to zoom extends.
And we'll also unpin our draw panel here,
like so.
And that's how we can edit our poly lines
and our SP lines in our AutoCAD drawings.