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Using Rotate and Scale in your AutoCAD drawings

Using Rotate and Scale in your AutoCAD drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using Rotate and Scale in your AutoCAD drawings

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our Office Layout.dwg file. And as you can see, everything is in the same state as it was at the end of the last video. We're going to start tidying up the office layout now by using rotate and scale. Again, these are two commands that are available on the modify panel up here, but they're also available on the right click shortcut menu as well. Now, we're going to zoom in on this cubicle here first, like so. So let's zoom in a bit and you'll notice that the computer and the chair aren't really oriented to the desk very well. So what we're going to do, we're going to select the chair, just click on it once and you'll see that grip appear as well. We then right click and you'll see rotate on the shortcut menu. Pick a point roughly in the center of the seat of the chair and left click. Now, as you rotate, can you see the chair is rotating about that point you've just selected? So we're going to specify a rotation angle now of 45 degrees and press enter…

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