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Manage the UCS origin and rotation for specific project needs

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Manage the UCS origin and rotation for specific project needs

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our building plot.dwg file, and in this particular section of the chapter where we're managing user coordinate systems, we're going to take a look now at how we manage the UCS origin and rotation for specific project needs. Now in the previous video, I showed you how to create and restore a named UCS, and we called that UCS building because it related to the building. Now it may be that you want different UCSes in your drawing to manage different things. Now you'll notice some of the lines that form the boundary of this particular drawing, this particular plot in the building plot are at various angles. Now I'm going to be looking at this line segment right here. That's the one we're going to use, and we're going to create another UCS and call it boundary. So it's very simple, just type UCS, press enter and the origin of the UCS is going to be here. Click there, there you go. Can you see…

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