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Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD LT 2021

You're reading from   Practical Autodesk AutoCAD 2021 and AutoCAD LT 2021 A no-nonsense, beginner's guide to drafting and 3D modeling with Autodesk AutoCAD

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789809152
Length 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Yasser Shoukry Yasser Shoukry
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Jaiprakash Pandey Jaiprakash Pandey
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. An Introduction to AutoCAD 2. Basic Drawing Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Learning about Modify Commands 4. Working with Arrays and Reusable Objects 5. Managing Drawings with Layers and Properties 6. Working with Hatches, Text, and Dimensions 7. Tables, Isometric, and Parametric Drawings 8. Customization Tools 9. External References and Dynamic Blocks 10. Introduction to 3D Modeling 11. Creating Primitive 3D Shapes 12. Conversion between 2D and 3D 13. Modifying 3D Objects 14. Surfaces and Mesh Modeling 15. Paper Space Layouts and Printing 16. Rendering and Presentation

Using Match Properties

As you may have noticed, changing object properties is pretty simple and you can do it using the PROPERTIES palette. But, if you need to change the properties of multiple objects so that they all have the exact same set of properties, then doing it manually could cause errors and would certainly be a time-consuming thing to do.

So, in this case, you can use Match Properties to copy the properties of an object and transfer those properties to another object in the drawing. The Match Properties tool is found on the Properties panel and you can activate it using the icon shown in the following figure, or you can also use its command alias, MA:

Fig 5.25: The Match Properties option on the Properties palette

Here, I will use a simple example of this circle, which is green, has the HIDDEN linetype, has a lineweight of 0.5, and has a scale of 2 on the linetype...

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