Following this lesson, you will:
Know how to draw several lines at once with the MLine command
Be able to create multiline styles with the MLStyle command
Be able to edit multilines with the MLEdit command
Back in grade school, when I'd been naughty (and got caught), I was punished by being assigned to write "penance" sentences “ "I will be good in school," one hundred times. Oh! The degradations of childhood!
But in my childish attempts to cut corners (there were always ways to cut corners), I would tape four pencils together. Then I only had to "be good in school" twenty-five times!
Apparently, someone at Autodesk learned a similar childhood lesson. The result was the MLine command. The MLine command does just what taping four pencils together did “ it enables you to create more than one line at a time.
AutoCAD's multilines actually involve three commands: MLine, MLEdit, and MLStyle. The first actually draws the lines; the second enables you to edit, or change, the lines; the third enables you to define the lines.
In Lesson 12, we'll look at each.