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Arraying objects

Arraying objects

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Arraying objects

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- In this video I'll discuss the Array command and its variations. Open the Array sample file to follow along. There are three different Array tools here on this flyout menu. Let's start with Rectangular Array. Zoom in to this desk. You have a Select objects prompt. Select the chair and press enter. You might need to zoom out to see what's happened. A default array has been generated. Notice that there's a green line around this whole tab. This is a temporary tab. It only exists while you're creating the array. We can set a number of columns and a number of rows. In this case, I just want to have three chairs along the edge of the desk so I need to have three columns. Highlight the value here and change it to 3. Press the tab key to have it take effect. Sometimes it takes a couple of seconds before it updates. The number of rows should be 1, so type 1 and press tab. You can set the distance between the columns here. Right now it's at 3 foot and 1/2 inch. I'll change that to 2 foot 6…

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