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Rotate about an entity

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Rotate about an entity

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- [Instructor] In this example, let's talk about rotate about entity. Now I've got a pretty simple part here, but if you had a big assembly and you're trying to rotate things around, sometimes it can get a little bit awkward, so let me show you a cool tool that you can use to rotate about the item you're looking for. So if you hold down the middle mouse button, we all know we can rotate our part just like we have always done. We can also scroll in and out with that same middle mouse button. Now what happens if I just click one time with the middle mouse button? Notice it highlights that surface, right? And notice the icon changed to this little arrow going around that entity. Now if I hold down middle mouse button at this point, the part will rotate about that surface. Pretty cool, right? So once again, click with the middle mouse button, so one click. And then hold down the middle mouse button. You can rotate…

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