User Manual - Page 2097

For AUTOCAD 2011.

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11 Continue to place openings, and press ENTER.
Editing the Geometry of a Custom Opening
Use this procedure to edit the geometry of a profile that determines the shape
of a custom opening. You can save the changes to the existing profile or to a
new profile.
1 Select the opening that has the shape you want to change, and
click Opening tab ➤ Profile panel ➤ Edit In Place .
A temporary profile is created for you to edit the geometry of the
custom opening.
A temporary profile for editing a custom opening
2 NOTE After you perform an editing task from the Edit in Place tab,
you may need to select the profile again to perform another editing
task. If you do not see the editing commands that you expect on the
ribbon, select the profile, and click Edit in Place once again.
Edit the profile:
Then…If you want to…
select the profile, and use edge and vertex
grips to adjust the shape.
The Edge grip has three edit modes: Off-
set, Add Vertex, and Convert to Arc. The
change the shape of the
perimeter of the profile or its
rings
default mode is Offset, which offsets the
selected edge in a direction that is perpen-
dicular to the midpoint of the edge. De-
pending on the shape of the profile and
the edge you choose to modify, neighbor-
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