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Using Offset and Mirror

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Using Offset and Mirror

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- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in the ModifyingObjects.dwg file. And we're going to have a look now at the Offset and Mirror commands, and what we're going to do is we're going to jump to that reception area view that we had before. So you'll notice that the drawing has been zoomed to its extents again. I'm going to go to the view drop-down here in the drawing area, custom model views, and I'm going to go to reception here on the custom model views in the drawing like so. Now, this office here that I want to have a look at, so I might just want to pan and zoom in even closer perhaps, but it just gets me close to that area on the drawing if I use the named views. It's a little bit quicker. Now, you'll notice that we've got a single line representing the internal wall at the moment, and what we're going to do we're going to use that as a center line, and we're going to utilize it so that we can offset either side to give the wall some thickness. So let's do that first. We're…

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