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The Break button breaks an entity creating a gap in it.

Quick Access Panel:

Ribbon: Editor -> Instruments -> Break

Menu: Tools -> Modify -> Break

 

To create a gap in an entity:

1. Select the needed entity

2. Press the Break button.

3. Click to set the first and the second points of the gap.

 

Example - break a circle:

•press the Break button;

•select a circle:

•click to set the first break point on the circle:

•click to select the second break point on the circle:

•the result is:

Note: For circle and ellipse entities Break operation cuts off a sector between the two points in the clockwise direction.