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[Jon Davis]

In autocad, those who've used it are familiar with the trim between command, where you start the trim, but hit enter a second time

so that you can trim between two objects as opposed to having to pick the trim point or line.

 

Is there a way we can add that to softplan... when drawing details like the shutter pictured below... I currently have to break the line then trim past the top, and then trim past the bottom.... a single command to trim between lines would be great.

 

 

 

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[Jim Johnson]

Jon,

You can use "Block Cut" erase command with snap on to achieve this.

[Brent Hyndman]

Thanks for the suggestion Jon.

 

We have a suggestion logged requesting to allow trims and extends to 2 lines at one time.

 

As Jim said, the Block Cut command using Snap(F11) will also achieve the trim requirement.

[Dave Pazyniak]

Can you use the block cut command when the cutting lines are not horizontal or vertical?  I have to block cut a few lines and then trim them to the cutting lines...

[Brent Hyndman]

Maybe try changing the cursor angle. That might help with working on the angle.

[Ben Ginther]

Try drawing several lines at a 45° angle and then try to block cut a portion of the lines with the cursor at the same angle and you will find that it does not work. 

[Keith Almond]

Even with the cursor at an angle and drawing the cutting box at an angle, the actual cut is performed horizontal and vertical to the extremities of the box.

[Jon Davis]

I'll try it, thanks for the tip

[Brent Hyndman]

The issue with the angled cursor/ block cut has been reported where the cut area remains orthographic even though the selection box is angled.

[Jon Davis]

Jon,

You can use "Block Cut" erase command with snap on to achieve this.

 

Just tried it, works great!!! Wish I had known about this 2 years ago! lol