This CAD tip comes from working with some of the best CADDsters around, and will not be found in any AutoCAD textbook. It involves creating a temporary “handle” object for a Move or Copy operation, in order to ensure that the base and destination points are placed exactly where you intend them to be.
Here is a list of CAD tips about one of the most frequent tasks a CAD drafter encounters: specifying a base point (let’s call it Point A) and a destination point (called Point B in this post).
This map of the AutoCAD interface from the Autodesk website is a good reference when we talk about the various parts of the screen.
Here is a tip that will make one of the most common CAD tasks, trimming two lines, go quicker and easier. There are three basic AutoCAD trim commands you can use to trim two lines: TRIM, FILLET, or CHAMFER.