AutoCAD Inventor :: Changing Construction Centerlines To Just Plain Centerlines?

Sep 19, 2012

A couple of quick questions:

1) Once a construction centerline is placed and constrained can you switch it to just a regular centerline?

2) Can you change a regular line to a construction line?

3) Can you change a construction line to a centerline?

I guess what I am asking is can you change line types at all ones they are placed?

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