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Detail Drafting Tools
AutoCAD Architecture includes a number of easily accessible tools designed to help you work
more intuitively and effectively with linework in detail drawings.
Construction Lines
Construction lines (also known as xlines) are temporary linework entities that
can be used as references when creating and positioning other objects or
linework. For example, you can use construction lines to prepare multiple views
of the same item, or create temporary intersections to serve as object snaps.
Construction lines are either circles or straight lines that extend to infinity in
both directions. In either case, they do not change the total area of the drawing
and have no effect on zooming or viewports. You can move, rotate, copy, or
delete construction lines just like other objects.
The regular AutoCAD construction line functionality is still available via the
XLINE command. However, the AutoCAD Architecture construction line feature
is designed to give you a more intuitive way of drawing construction lines based
on the geometry of existing objects or linework. No command line entry is
required.
In most cases, you would probably want to draw construction lines based on
segments of existing objects, but you can also draw them by specifying any two
points in the drawing area, without regard to existing objects or linework.
Creating Construction Lines From Existing Objects/Linework
Use this procedure to create a construction line based on the geometry of any
straight, arced, or circular segment of any object or linework, except hatches,
splines, and ellipses. If based on a straight segment, the resulting construction
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