Using the Format Painter Tool

Ribbon : Format | Arrange | Format Painter

Default Menu : Standard Toolbar, just below main pull down menus

This tool is used to harvest the properties of one object (source) and apply all or selected properties to another (destination).The Properties of the selected object automatically appear in the Format Painter palette and the Selection Info Palette.The improved features of the Format Painter tool allow properties of an object to be harvested from an object and saved as a specific style.

Use the Format Painter tool to copy the properties of the previously created hidden lines to the newly drawn hidden lines. The result is shown below.

Use the Split Entity tool to create a division in the upper horizontal line, shown below, then use theLine Lengthtool, if necessary, to adjust the overall length of the center lines.

The result is shown below.

Line split at points shown. Center lines adjusted using Line Length tool

Additional Resources

More information on using the Format Painter tool can be found here.