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Using the ROTATE command

Using the ROTATE command

- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our 16_OtherCommands.dwg file. And we're going to look at another command now that you will use more than probably on a regular basis in your DraftSight drawings and that's the rotate command. Now, you'll notice that I've left the drawing in the same state as it was at the end of the previous video. Please stay in that view for the moment because what we're going to do, we're going to look at those two chairs that are just sort of kind of hanging into our view at the moment. What I'd like you to do is just pan down ever so slowly. So hold down the wheel on the mouse and just drag the mouse down a little bit until you can see the entirety of the two chairs that relate to our two desks. Now what we're going to do is look at the rotate command but more importantly look at how a negative value of a rotate angle will rotate an object in a different direction. Now, I'm going to work with the left hand chair first. Now you can do this in two ways…

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