I have noticed a number of people lamenting the loss of the very usefull extend tool. It seems to have been replaced in it's most impotent form with the Connect tool. This is no more usefull than using a selection handle to drag one end of a line to another. In my view, this is just a redundant tool.
The old extend tool allowed you to choose a boundary line, then very quickly extend lines to this boundary with a single click each. None of this clicking back and forth between line and boundary. No panning accross a huge drawing.
One of the responses to the "Bring Back Extent" campaign told the user to select all of the lines slated for extension, then by using the selection handle of just one line, drag them all to the boundary object. This works only if all of the lines to be extended are the exact same length, and if the boudary object is a straight line, perpendicular to the lines to be extended. If you attempt this method with lines of unequal lengths, you end up with lines that resize, and either extend past the boundary object, or don't quite reach the object.
I still have my copy of Version 8. Is there a way to copy the code for the extend tool into my version 9? It would be great to get this tool back.
Thanks.
