User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Taking the AutoCAD Tour
- Chapter 2: Creating Basic Drawings
- Chapter 3: Manipulating Objects
- Lesson: Selecting Objects in the Drawing
- Lesson: Changing an Object's Position
- Lesson: Creating New Objects from Existing Objects
- Lesson: Changing the Angle of an Object's Position
- Lesson: Creating a Mirror Image of Existing Objects
- Lesson: Creating Object Patterns
- Lesson: Changing an Object's Size
- Challenge Exercise: Grips
- Challenge Exercise: Architectural
- Challenge Exercise: Mechanical
- Chapter Summary
- Chapter 4: Drawing Organization and Inquiry Commands
- Chapter 5: Altering Objects
- Lesson: Trimming and Extending Objects to Defined Boundaries
- Lesson: Creating Parallel and Offset Geometry
- Lesson: Joining Objects
- Lesson: Breaking an Object into Two Objects
- Lesson: Applying a Radius Corner to Two Objects
- Lesson: Creating an Angled Corner Between Two Objects
- Lesson: Changing Part of an Object's Shape
- Challenge Exercise: Architectural
- Challenge Exercise: Mechanical
- Chapter Summary
394 ■ Chapter 5: Altering Objects
Breaking Objects
Using the Break command, you can break a single object into two independent objects. You
accomplish this by first selecting the object to break and then specifying the break points.
The Modify panel contains two versions of the Break command. While each version executes the core
Break command, one breaks the object leaving a gap between the two remaining pieces and the other
breaks the object at one point, leaving the ends coincident (touching). In this lesson, you learn both
Break methods.
In the following image, the Break command was used to break the line indicated by the middle arrow,
at the points indicated by the arrows pointing to the intersections.
Command Access
Break
Command Line: BREAK, BR
Ribbon: Home tab > Modify panel > Break
Menu Bar: Modify > Break