Breaking entities

The BREAK command removes a portion of an entity, thus breaking it into two parts.

You can break arcs, circles, ellipses, lines, polylines, rays and infinite lines. Breaking a circle converts it to an arc. A ray is broken into a ray and a line, an infinite line is broken into two rays.

When breaking entities, you must specify two points for the break. By default, the point you use to select the entity becomes the first break point. However, you can use the First option to select a break point different from the one that selects the entity.



To break an entity

  1. Launch the BREAK command.

    You are prompted: Select entity to break [selection options (?)]:

  2. Select the entity.

    You are prompted: Select second breakpoint or [First break point/same as first point (@)]:

  3. Select the First break point option.

    You are prompted: First break point:

  4. Specify a point.

    You are prompted: Second break point:

  5. Specify a point.

    The part of the entity between the two break points is removed.