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Moving, copying, rotating, and scaling

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Moving, copying, rotating, and scaling

- [Instructor] In this video we're going to learn how to move, copy, rotate, scale, and stretch entities. And right up here at the top of the screen you can see right there, I already have all those selected and you can see what we have. So let's go ahead and take a look at this part here that I have, which is just a basic, L-shaped sketch. Now, if we wanted to move this sketch, we've got a few things: I could grab one of these lines and I can drag it out but that's actually changing the shape, right? What if I want to move everything together? I can select everything, grab it and I can move it around, which is pretty handy. That works well. But if you want to be a little bit more scientific about it, we can come up here to the move entities, choose that first one there, and I can select all these and I'm keeping the relationships, and then I can use this from-to or X and Y. So if I had an X, Y, I'm just going to…

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