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Moving, copying, rotating, scaling, and stretching elements

Moving, copying, rotating, scaling, and stretching elements - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Moving, copying, rotating, scaling, and stretching elements

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to be working on moving, copying, rotating, scaling, and stretching your sketch entities. To get started, let's head up here under the Move Entities icon and click on the twirldown and you can see we have all those tools available to us. So the very first one is going to be Move Entities. I'm going to go ahead and just window over all the entities I want to move, which are these ones here. And then come over here to my starting point, which is going to be this little corner here or any corner you want, and then I can pretty much move all those sketch entities to anywhere I want to in my sketch. As soon as you click, it just drops those off at a new location. Generally this is fairly hard to do if you don't have that command because generally if you try to pull on something it just kind of stretches it or moves it around, and you have to have something fully defined. But if you're able to select the entire thing then you can move it around at…

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