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Mirror options

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- [Instructor] This week I'm going to discuss mirroring objects. And you may notice there is no dedicated mirror tool so you're sort of left to your own devices in terms of figuring this out. I'd like to have some practical examples so I'm going to select this object and hide it. And then just navigate in here and you'll see that this central office is missing the furniture. So I'm going to start by selecting this chair and this desk and copying it into the office adjacent. So obviously this orientation isn't going to work for us. Your first instinct might be to rotate it, let's try that. The problem with rotate is that it requires an axis and when we have these objects selected we don't really know where the center is. So I'm just going to arbitrarily rotate it around some point. And then of course I need to move the objects probably a couple of times to get them into position. So it's in the room all right, but this orientation isn't really going to work for us because this desk is…

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