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Explode

According to DraftSight’s help file, the explode command breaks up complex entities into their component entities.

To explode an entity, select it and execute the explode command.

The only entity covered in this tutorial that can be exploded is the rectangle. Rectangles are drawn as one single entity. Because of this, individual lines cannot be removed from the rectangle. The explode command breaks up rectangles into individual lines that can be modified separately.

In the example below, the rectangle on the left is an unexploded rectangle. Notice that there are not EGrips  on the midpoints of the left rectangle. This is because the rectangle is understood as one single entity, which similar to a circle has a center, not midpoints along its lines. On the right is an example of an exploded rectangle. Each line can be selected and moved individually.