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Copy the rim and tire to the front

Copy the rim and tire to the front - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Copy the rim and tire to the front

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- [Instructor] At this stage the front end is complete except we still need to have a 3D rim and 3D tire. The wheels on this bike are the same size so we can just copy the 3D elements that we have up to the front. However, that's more easily said than done because it's very difficult to snap to the center of the wheel here with all this complexity. I'll show you a technique you can use in situations like this. Let's use the Layer Isolate Tool, and isolate this green 2D Rim Layer. Then draw a temporary line from the center of one wheel to the center of the other. This will hold the displacement vector that we need. So let's move this line out of the way, and then end Layer Isolation, and then copy the 3D wheel, and the, or rather the 3D tire and the 3D Rim Layer from one endpoint to the other endpoint of the line, enter. Then you can delete the temporary line. So in that way I represented that move displacement literally with a temporary line. And then I can use that information to…

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