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The Arc tools

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The Arc tools

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- [Instructor] Chapter 303, a time to look at The Arc tools. So, if you've got access to the exercise files, open this up you'll find a couple of props ready for us to use. I will start off by using the top one, which is the Arc itself. The way this works is, the first time you click, now it's going to be a pivot point, and then you set a distance for your arc. So, if I come vertically up, and click a second time, then going to carve an arc around at that sort of pin point, or the fulcrum point of the arc. Okay, the controls that you've got are three fold. The first one is the positioning. So you can set specific position, either snapping to a point, or you can use the dimension input in the measurements tool. The second position is going to be the length of the radius of this arc, and the third point is going to be the angle, it comes down in a clockwise direction. As you can see in the box at the bottom, it's giving out the angle. So, you can set those three specific points. Now…

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