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Using Scale and Rotate

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Using Scale and Rotate

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- [Voiceover] We're staying in the same drawing, the 05_ModifyingObjects.dwg file. What it might be worth doing is saving this with a slightly different file name, maybe something like 05_ModifyingObjects_Complete, so that you're saving the changes as you make them when we go through each Modify command. Now I've stayed in the same zoomed view this time around just to make life easier. You can see the desks and chairs that we worked with with the Move and Copy commands earlier. Now what we're going to look at now is scaling and rotating. Again, Modify tools that are available to us on the Modify panel on the ribbon. So you go to Home tab on the ribbon. If you go to Modify, you've got things like Rotate is there, and you've got Scale right there. So what we're going to look at now is rotating and scaling. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to look at this little table block here. I'm going to make it slightly bigger. I'm going to make it 1.25 of its original size, 25% bigger. Then…

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