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Using Rotate and Scale in your AutoCAD drawings

Using Rotate and Scale in your AutoCAD drawings - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD 2026 Essential Training

Using Rotate and Scale in your AutoCAD drawings

- [Shaun] We're staying in our officelayout.dwg file, and we're going to take a look now at how we can quickly use Rotate and Scale to tidy up our office layout. Now, in the previous video, we did a bit of moving and copying, and you can see we've got some objects now in our office space. Look at this cubicle here, we're going to zoom in, and get that nice and central on the screen so that we can see what we're doing. Now, you'll notice that the chair and the computer aren't really oriented correctly to the desk, so we need to rotate them. Now, before we do anything, pop down to your status bar. You want to go to your polar tracking here and click on the little flyout arrow, and select 45 degree angle increments, that one there. Now, the reason I suggest that is if you look at this desk, it's got that 45-degree angle increment in the central section. So ideally, we want the chair and the computer rotated to align with that 45-degree line. And if we've got polar tracking set to 45…

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