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Use the SCOOT command

Use the SCOOT command

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Use the SCOOT command

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- [Instructor] We're staying in our DEMO04.dwg file in our WDDEMO project. And we're going to start looking at some of the individual AutoCAD electrical editing commands. First one we're going to look at is the scoot command. And what that does is it allows you quite literally to scoot components along wires and they're constrained to the wire it's a really, really useful tool. I'm going to zoom in on these components here that we were looking at earlier. I'm zooming in a bit so that it's nice and big on the screen and you can see what's going on. Now what you'll find is a lot of these editing commands are available on the Marking menu on the right click, but they're also available on the Schematic tab in the Edit Components panel. So you'll notice here if I click on this flyer here you got things like Scoot, Align, Move and so on. So scoot is there, but it's actually quicker to use the scoot on the Marking menu that's why the marking menu's there. So if I hover over this LS 1000 that…

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