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<title>AutoCAD Tutorial 5: Press Pull Tool</title>
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<![CDATA[<p>AutoCAD Tutorial 5 - Press pull tool</p>
 
 <p>The press pull tool is a really useful tool and is closely related to the extrude tool. Like the extrude tool, it can modify the height of a 2D object, but the press pull tool can modify any face of an object.</p>
 
 <p>In this example, I have a box as shown:</p>
 
 <p><img  alt="" src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/computersight/2007/08/14/44518_0.jpg" /></p>
 
 <p>I want to make the box bigger but I don't want to draw it again, this is a job for the press pull tool:</p>
 
 <p><img  alt="" src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/computersight/2007/08/14/44518_1.jpg" /></p>
 
 <p>I want to make the box longer, so I select the press pull tool OR type in “presspull” and I go over the face that I want to modify:</p>
 
 <p><img  alt="" src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/computersight/2007/08/14/44518_2.jpg" /></p>
 
 <p>Now I can click and specify how much I want it to be modified:</p>
 
 <p><img  alt="" src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/computersight/2007/08/14/44518_3.jpg" /></p>
 
 <p>Finished product:</p>
 
 <p><img  alt="" src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/computersight/2007/08/14/44518_4.jpg" /></p>
 
 <p>Oh dear I've made it too long. To fix this, we can once again use the press pull tool, but instead of going outwards, we are going INWARDS:</p>
 
 <p><img  alt="" src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/computersight/2007/08/14/44518_5.jpg" /></p>
 
 <p>Finished product:</p>
 
 <p><img  alt="" src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/computersight/2007/08/14/44518_6.jpg" /></p>
 
 
 
 <p>Another neat thing about the press pull tool is that it can modified closed objects. In this example, I have drawn a series of 2D lines like so:</p>
 
 <p><img  alt="" src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/computersight/2007/08/14/44518_7.jpg" /></p>
 
 <p>Using the press pull tool, I can raise each of them, even though they are not joined together:</p>
 
 <p><img  alt="" src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/computersight/2007/08/14/44518_8.jpg" /></p>
 
 <p>Finished product:</p>
 
 <p><img  alt="" src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/computersight/2007/08/14/44518_9.jpg" /></p>
 
 <p>With the press pull tool the possibilities are endless.</p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computersight.com%2FSoftware%2FAutoCAD%2FAutoCAD-Tutorial-5-Press-Pull-Tool.39752"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computersight.com%2FSoftware%2FAutoCAD%2FAutoCAD-Tutorial-5-Press-Pull-Tool.39752" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:13:51 PST</pubDate></item>
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