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Modifying to Make It Merrier
When you have a better view of the base plate by zooming, which I talk about in the preceding section, you can edit the objects on it more easily. In the following few sections, you use the Hatch command to add crosshatching to the column and use the Stretch command to change the shape of the plate. As always, I cover these commands in detail later in this book.
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Crossing your hatches
The next editing task is to add crosshatching to the space between the inner and outer edges of the column. The hatch lines indicate that the drawing shows a cross section of the column. To do so, follow these steps:
1 Turn off Object Snap (F3), Ortho (F8), and Snap (F9) modes by clicking their respective buttons on the status bar or by pressing the indicated function key until the icons look dimmed.
2 Select the Hatch layer from the Layer drop-down list at the top of the Layers panel on the Home tab.
3 On the Home tab’s Draw panel, click the Hatch button (shown in the margin) or type Hatch at the keyboard.The Hatch Creation tab appears on the Ribbon. For more information on this tab, and on hatching in general, see ssss1. Note that the Ribbon now has a light blue line around it and all the panels now show actions related to creating and formatting crosshatching.