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Grouping and aligning

Grouping and aligning - Tinkercad Tutorial

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Grouping and aligning

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All right. So, before we move on any further creating additional parts of our knobs, we need to just do a little housekeeping to keep things straight. I'm going to select all of the objects in the workspace by using the keyboard shortcut Cmd+A. Another option we have is to click and drag a selection box over our items, or use Shift+Select. Okay, so with our three objects selected, I'm going to go up to Adjust>Align. And you see that we get options to align these objects in three different axis, and I just want to make sure they're centered. In x and y. And it looks like they are, so that's great. And again, I'm going to select these objects using Shift+Select and I'm going to click Group. And just be aware that the grouping isn't permanent, we can always go back into the objects by double-clicking to edit the individual ones. You can see this red box that indicates we're sort of in that edit mode. When you're done making any changes like perhaps lowering this a little. And you can…

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