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Manipulate the user coordinate system

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Manipulate the user coordinate system

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- [Instructor] Let's turn our attention now to this tube in red, which extends from the bracket that we just modeled, all the way up here to where the seat post goes and slips inside of it. So I'm going to orbit around and get a different view of this. And let's just take a look at that. So this seat tube is at some angle with respect to the user coordinate system. So the access tripod that I'm moving around lines up with the UCS icon down here in the corner. Can you see that? It always does. So what I'd like to do now is change the UCS so that it lines up with the geometry here that we're trying to model. So I'll type UCS enter, and then I'll use the convenient object option right here. And then I'll just click on this red object right there. And that reorients the UCS so that it's parallel to this geometry. And that will make things easier for us. Now if I draw a circle right now, that circle will be on the XY plane, so it's on the same plane as the rest of this two-dimensional…

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