User`s guide

Lesson: Selecting Objects in the Drawing ■ 163
Removing Selection from Grips
To remove a hot grip, press ESC. Press ESC again to remove selection from all grips in the
current selection set. To remove a single object from a selection set, press SHIFT + click
the object.
Guidelines for Grip Editing
■ Grips appear on selected objects only when the Command line is blank.
■ You can select objects first, so that they are highlighted with grips, then you can choose one of the
modify commands for that selection.
■ When used in conjunction with Dynamic Input, you can use grips to resize geometry by entering
new values for length, angle, radius, and coordinates in the Dynamic Input fields.
■ You can combine the grip copy option with your grip editing tasks. Right-click anywhere in the
drawing and select Copy. The original object remains unchanged. Multiple copies can be made
using the grip editing command options.
■ When using the grip copy option, you can make multiple copies at regular intervals based on your
first copy by holding down the shift key when placing your next copy.
■ You can perform clipboard edit options of the object selected by right-clicking and choosing: Cut,
Copy, Copy with base point or Paste.
■ You can change the base point of the object being edited with grips. Right-click anywhere in the
drawing and click Base Point to define a new base point for the objects selected.
■ You can use the Reference option when rotating or scaling objects during a grip edit. Right-click
anywhere in the drawing and click Reference.