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Trimming lines

Use the Trim Away tool to delete any line portion bounded by an intersection with a line or edge.

NoteAnnotation placed on a design, drawing sheet, or 3D markup. Notes contain text or symbols that you insert and can be connected to geometry by a note leader.: LineA straight line, arc, or spline drawn in Sketch mode or on a layout plane. Lines have length but no area. When you pull a sketch into 3D with the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. tool, lines become edges. segments to be removed appear in red.

The sketch grid must be visible in the workspace before you can trim lines.

To delete a bounded line

1. Click Trim Away in the Sketch group or press T.

2. Mouse over a line to preview the section that will be deleted.

3. Click to delete the highlighted line section.

   The portion of the line you clicked is deleted up to any intersection with another 2D line or edge of a solid.