How to edit a multiline

Command: MLEDIT

It will open following dialog box:

Multiline edit tools

To delete a Add/ Vertex from multiline:

Select Add/ delete vertex option from edit tools. click at the point where you need to add vertex/ click on vertex which you have to delete.

To create Intersection.

In creating instersection we have options to create:

Closed cross
Closed Tee
Corner joint
Open cross
Open Tee
Merged cross
Merged Tee.

In all of the above option we need to select two multilines in following order:

Select a multiline which you have to trim.
Select a multiline which you have to retain.

Lets consider an example of following tutorial:

In this tutorial you have to make a path so that a person travelling in Multiline will have no obstruction whereas, there will be obstruction for path 2. i.e you have to create a closed cross in which multiline 1 will be open and multiline 2 will be trimmed from between.

Steps to followed:

Command: MLEDIT
Select closed cross from edit tools.
First click of multiline 2 which needs to be trimmed to make passage for multiline 1.
Then click on multiline 1 which defines trimming boundary for multiline 2.

Use of comman commands on multiline:

You can use most of editing commands on multiline. But you can never use following commands on multilines:

Break
Chamfer
Fillet
Offset
Lengthen

If you wish to use following commands on multilines, then you have to explode multilines into single objects.

Related Comcepts:

Related task:

Related reference:

Commands for editing specific objects.

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