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Drafting: Aligning objects in 2D

Drafting: Aligning objects in 2D - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Drafting: Aligning objects in 2D

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- [Instructor] Welcome to another AutoCAD tip and trick. We're going to look at another command in AutoCAD that is somewhat underrated and somewhat underused. And that's the align command in AutoCAD. So, we have a new drawing for you. It's called Align.dwg. You can download that from the library as usual to follow along with the video. When you open up the Align drawing, you'll see the hexagons, the rectangles and the desk and the chair. We'll look at aligning those in a moment. The Align command is hidden. It's on the Home tab on the Modify panel on the fly out here. So, I'll just pin that open and it's this little command here with the little blue square on it, there's a line there. Now it may be that you want to type ALIGN, A-L-I-G-N like so, there it is there on the suggestion menu so you can type it in if you want to. You'll also notice if you're working in 3D, there's a 3D Align as well. Now it's up to you if you type it or click on the icon, it's entirely up to you. I'm going…

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