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Rotate and Scale

Rotate and Scale - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Rotate and Scale

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- Once again we're starting in our modifying objects .dwg file. In the last video, we did the moving and the copying of the desks, and the chairs. Now you'll notice that the chairs aren't facing the desks, and vise versa, the desks aren't facing the chairs. So we're going to zoom in a little bit, so just roll up on the wheel a notch there, so that we can see the chairs and the desks in more detail. Now we have a choice here, we can rotate the desks, or we can rotate the chairs. Now I'm going to show you, two quick ways to rotate those desks through a 180 degrees, so they're sitting underneath the chairs in this plan view. Let's look at the left hand desk first. You can click on the desk to select it. Now, the trick here is, again, you can use the ribbon workflow, because, obviously rotate is up here on the ribbon, in the modified panel, or, if right click after selecting an object, you'll notice that rotate is on the shortcut menu as well. So there's rotate, again it wants a base…

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