From the course: AutoCAD 2015 Essential Training
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Moving and copying
In this video, I'll discuss the Move and Copy commands. I'll also cover the Copy command's Array option, which lets you copy multiple objects all at once. Open the Architectural sample file, and zoom in to the living room over here on the right. Let's start by moving this lounge chair around to gain some practice with the Move command. Click Move on the Modify panel, and you're at a Select objects prompt. Pick the lounge chair, and you're still in the Select objects prompt. So we need to exit from this selection mode. You can do that by pressing the Spacebar or the Enter key. Now it says Specify base point. Basically with the Move command, you'll be moving from point a to point b. The base point you can think of as point a. And in this case, it doesn't really matter where the base point is on the screen. We just need to click some place. I'll click right here. Now we move on to the next prompt. It says, Specify second point. This would be our point b. I can move the cursor, and then…
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Selecting objects10m 12s
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Moving and copying8m 22s
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Rotating and scaling8m 11s
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Arraying objects8m 46s
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Offsetting and mirroring6m 48s
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Stretching and lengthening2m 40s
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Trimming and extending4m 38s
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Breaking and joining5m 10s
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Editing with grips4m 21s
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Creating boundaries and cleaning up4m 42s
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Performing Boolean operations on regions3m 49s
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Using the fillet, chamfer, and blend commands4m 41s
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Dividing and measuring6m 2s
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Editing polylines and splines6m 51s
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