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Using Rotate and Scale

Using Rotate and Scale - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using Rotate and Scale

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We're staying in our OfficeLayout.dwg file and we're going to take a look now at the Rotate and Scale commands in AutoCAD that allow us to modify our drawings. Now in the previous video we did a bit of moving and copying and we moved the computer and the chair into this cubicle here. So you see the computer is facing the wall and the chair is not really facing the desk so we need to do a bit of rotating there to get them just to look better. They don't look really that professional right now, do they? So let's zoom in on that cubicle for a moment. Just come in a couple of notches so that you can see what you're doing. It's always good to get in nice and close like that with your zoom command so you can see all the detail. Now, we're gonna select the computer first to rotate so that it's facing the chair over here. But before we do that, jump down to your polar tracking here, click on the fly out, and make sure that you select the 45 degree angle increments, one there second one down…

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