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Rotating 3D shapes

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Rotating 3D shapes

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- Our next focus is rotating 3D shapes. Let's drag three pyramids onto the work plane. I'm going to space them sort of about 30 millimeters apart. Doesn't need to be exact. Let's click on the first one and hit F to fit to view. Notice these curvy arrow grips. These allow you to easily rotate shapes. And at the moment, I can only see two of them. So I'm an orbit around, and now I can see all three. Mousing over these grips gives you a preview of the rotation. We're going to work with the one down here on the bottom. I'll click and hold. If I go close to the pyramid, I'm using the inner ring. And if I go further out to menus the outer ring, let's use the inner ring first. Go in a little bit closer, mouse around. You can see that it's dropping in 22 and a half degree increments, which is great, if you want to, for example, rotate to 45 degrees. You can also click into this value and type something else. 46.55, you can use…

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