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Using Stretch and Lengthen

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Using Stretch and Lengthen

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- [Instructor] We're staying in the ModifyingObjects dot dwg file, and we're going to look now at another two commands that are very useful when you're modifying your AutoCad drawings, and they are the Stretch command and the Lengthen command. Now you'll notice, I have left the drawing this time in the same state as it was at the end of the last video. That's because we're going to work on these wall here that we've created previously in the previous video. Just pan upward slightly by holding down the wheel on the mouse and moving upward slightly with the mouse. You want to be able to see these lines here that form the wall, and what we're going to do is we're going to stretch and lengthen our internal walls here, these two that we've created, by about a meter and a half, in order to create a new corridor that runs along this bottom wall here. So let's have a look at how that works. Let's use the Stretch command first. Now the Stretch command is up on the Modify panel, on the Home tab…

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