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Magnetic line

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- [Instructor] It's not until we create balloons inside of drawings that we have magnetic lines available. So you'll notice again, if we go up to the command manager and go to the Annotation tab, we see here magnetic lines. These are used to align balloons and give us the option to move around multiples at the same time, keeping everything nice and neat inside of our drawing views. So you can see here, if I click on one of these balloons, I actually have a magnetic line here in the background. And when I click on it, it usually turns orange. That's usually how you see it when they're activated. And over here on the left, I can see how long it is and what angle it's at. And if I want to, I can adjust that angle right here and it just pivots about the center, which is pretty cool. And I can also shorten it if I want to and compress everything. For the spacing, I have free drag. And what that means is I can take these balloons…

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