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The Rectangle tools

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The Rectangle tools

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- [Instructor] Chapter three 04, we're looking at the rectangle tools. That's this cluster. So rectangle, rounded rectangle, lozenge and the barrel-shaped bulged rectangle. Okay, let's choose rectangle first and to create a rectangle, it's really quite easy. You just click and move your mouse and then you click again so that's going to create a rectangle. Two clicks. If you want to position something more accurately, then key thing to do is hit your Escape key first even though the Rectangle tool is loaded. So hit Escape and that resets that dimension box and that says Point, so that means we're ready to position our next rectangle. So we've got to go through the formatting, so open square brackets and then, let's say 100, that's four inches, comma 100, and then close your square brackets and then hit Enter. So that's going to position the first point of your rectangle. To create a rectangle of a specific size, you have to use the less than and the greater than parentheses or brackets…

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