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Command: _BREAK

1 Comment Sep-10-2008 | Posted by Erhan Toker | Printable Version | Level |

BREAK command, which is applicable to entities like line, arc, circle, polyline, donut etc., opens a space between two selected photos.

Fig.1

Execution of the command is quite simple. You select the entity that will be broken and then you select the two points. At the end the spacing between the selected points over the entity is removed from drawing.

Command : BREAK
Select object:
Specify second break point or [First point]: F

It is very important to examine how the command works at this stage. BREAK command accepts the point where you selected the entityf as first point. For this reason, you have to do the selection by using any of the OSNAP commands. However, this is not possible all the time. In addition, the break point also has a second line on it as it can be seen in the example. For this reason, I always select the entity from a random point and then I use the ‘First’ option to select the first point properly once more. Thus, if you select ‘F’ option from command line after executing the command, you get:

Specify first break point:
Specify second break point:

As soon as you select the two points, then the breaking operation will be executed. Indeed, these two points do not have to be over the entity. AutoCAD will accept the perpendicular projection of points on the entitiy as the breaking point.

Fig.2

As you can see in Fig. 2, even though the two points are not on the entity but on the other line, the breaking operation is carried out on the line that is selected.

Another important point is the sequence of selection of breaking points especially on circles.

Fig.3

As it can be seen in Fig. 3, the spacing between the two breaking points is removed in counter clockwise direction. By this final tip, we have seen all of the features of BREAK command.