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Position objects with Select and Move

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Position objects with Select and Move

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In the previous movie we got an introduction to using the Select and Move tool to position objects in the 3D world. Let's go a little bit deeper into that and look at different ways we can do that including using numerical input and offsets. I've got a scene here that I provided with the exercise files. If you don't have the exercise files you can just practice using some basic primitives. As we saw previously, we can move an object by activating the Select and Move tool. It's one of three transformation tools or transform tools up here on the main toolbar. We have Move, Rotate, and Scale. Let's look at Move. If we hover the mouse over some object it will highlight in yellow. We'll get a yellow outline. That's called pre-selection highlighting. We haven't actually selected anything yet but we're about to. So if we hover the mouse over this chair over here we'll get some yellow pre-selection highlighting on that. Actually click on an object and it will highlight with blue outlining…

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