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Using Rotate and Scale

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Using Rotate and Scale

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- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our modifying objects dot DWG file. We're going to have a little look now at how we rotate and scale objects in our AutoCAD drawings and we're going to look at a couple of methods of rotating and scaling that basically make sure that you set up your work area with your desks and your chairs effectively. So we're going to look at the rotate command first. Now, you'll notice that the desks, the handles for the drawers, are on the lower side of the desks which means the chairs are facing the wrong way or, more importantly, the desks are facing the wrong way. What we're going to do is we're going to rotate the desks around so that they are underneath the chairs in the plan view and the chair is then facing the desk in the correct way. So let's look at our first desk here like so. Again, I can select it, I can then right click and you'll see that rotate is on the short-cut menu. I can…

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