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Using the rotate and scale commands

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Using the rotate and scale commands

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- [Instructor] We're staying in Modifying Objects.dwg file and I hope you've saved it, as per what we did in the last video. Now, what we're going to look at now is we're going to look at rotate and scale, and we're going to rotate and scale one of the rectangles that we moved and copied in the previous video. What I'd like you to do is, I'd like you to select this rectangle here, first of all, the one on the right hand end and just delete it, by hitting Delete on the keyboard done, like so. We're going to move this rectangle here, so I'm going to click on it, right click and go Move on the shortcut menu. Bottom left corner is the endpoint snare, click on it, drag it to the right using the polar tracking and type in one as the distance to move, and then Enter to finish, just gives us a bit of space. Now we're going to rotate that particular rectangle, now again, Rotate is on the Modify panel, on the ribbon on the Home tab. You can type Rotate if you want to, or my preferred method…

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