From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Sketching

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Stretch, Move, Rotate, Scale, and Copy

Stretch, Move, Rotate, Scale, and Copy - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Stretch, Move, Rotate, Scale, and Copy

- [Instructor] When editing your existing geometry that you already have completed and has certain automatic relations or other relations inside of it, sometimes it makes sense to advantage of the features under the Move Entities tab. So, here we can find Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale, and Stretch Entities, so let's take a look at how all these work. I'm going to start with Move Entities. Move Entities is pretty simple, it's just how it describes. If you hover over it you can get a description and it says, "Move sketch entities "and annotations," and that's what it does. You simply select the object you want to move and you can move it using X/Y, so I can just (clicks) adjust it like this, and you can see the preview of it moving the entity, or you can do a From/To where you choose the start point and then you can move it to another point, and you can keep moving it around until you decide it's in the position that you like. I'm going to drop it back over here and then hit Okay. So…

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