trim lines

[Joseph Swift]

Hello all,

I'm sure it is something stupid I'm doing but I can extend lines on closed contours till the cows come home but I can not trim the lines at an intersection for the life of me. I've went through several posts discussing the procedure but I'm just not able to get it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Joe-

[Mike Seisser]

Joseph,

I'll give it a whirl.

If you only need to trim one of the lines, click the Trim tool, then One Entity from the dropdown menu. Click on the line that you want trimmed, and click on the part that you want to remain - then click on the other line (the one you want to use to trim your first line.)

If you need to trim two lines, click the Trim tool, then Two Entities from the dropdown menu. Click either of the two lines on the part of the line that you want to keep, then click the other line on the part that you want to keep.

Also, zoom in ridiculously close to the intersection by holding down the Ctrl key and left mouse click/dragging a bounding box around the area you need to look at. I can't count how many times I zoomed in really close only to discover that my lines weren't intersecting.

If you need more help with this, let me know, I'll post some step by step images.

GL

Mike

[Joseph Swift]

Thank you thank you Mike!

I was right clicking and selecting modify, then trim, then teo lines rather than chosing the trim tool wich I was not aware of.
Told you I was being stupid!

Thanks again.

Joe-

[Mike Seisser]

Joseph,

Not stupid at all! We've all been there. Glad I could help.

Mike

[Ray Jorgensen]

What I usually do and works is to select radius and set to zero, then click on both of the sections of the intersecting lines that you want to keep. Seems to work better for me.

[Rick Palechuk]

That's an interesting tip Ray! I'm going to give that a try.