CHANGE — Change

Changes points and properties of objects.

• Command: CHANGE · Global name: _CHANGE · Alias: -CH
• Ribbon: Home › Modify
• Menu: Modify

Changes the geometry or the properties of the selected objects: with a change point it takes line endpoints and circle radii to that point and lets you change texts and blocks one by one; with Properties it changes the color, layer, linetype and other properties of everything selected.

Usage

1. Enter CHANGE (or -CH).
2. Select the objects and press Enter.

Select objects:

3. Specify the change point, press Enter to go on to texts, blocks and circles, or choose Properties.

Specify change point or [Properties]:

Change point

• Lines: the endpoint of each line closest to the point is moved to it.
• Circles: the radius changes so that the circle passes through the point. Without a point (Enter), the radius of each circle is asked.

Specify new circle radius <no change>:

• Texts: the insertion point, style, height, rotation angle and text are asked one by one. Enter keeps each value.

Specify new insertion point <no change>:
Enter new text style <no change>:
Specify new height <no change>:
Specify new rotation angle <no change>:
Enter new text <no change>:

• Blocks: the insertion point and the rotation angle.

Properties

Enter property to change [Color/Elev/LAyer/LType/ltScale/LWeight/Thickness/TRansparency/Material/Annotative]:

• Color (C), LAyer (LA), LType (LT), ltScale (S), LWeight (LW) and TRansparency (TR): as in the PROPERTIES palette. The layer and the linetype must exist in the drawing.
• Elev (E): the elevation (Z) of lines (if both endpoints are at the same one), circles, arcs, polylines, texts, blocks, points, ellipses, hatches, 2D solids and shapes.
• Material (M): the name of a material of the drawing, ByLayer or ByBlock. Annotative (A... see the prompt): Yes or No.
• Thickness (T): the extrusion thickness of lines, circles, arcs, polylines, texts and points.

After each property you return to the list; Enter ends.

Notes

• Everything a CHANGE does is undone at once with U.
• It does not change the material, the plot style or the annotative property yet; of attributes, only what they have of text; of multiline texts, only the insertion point. ORTHO mode does not make the lines parallel.

See also

PROPERTIES · MATCHPROP · STRETCH · TEXTEDIT