Rotate and Scale
The ROTATE and SCALE commands are obviously essential to drawing; each requires a base point to indicate the center from which objects are transformed. Numerically speaking, you typically rotate by degrees or scale by percentages about base points. On the other hand, you can avoid using numbers entirely by choosing the Reference options, which let you rotate or scale selection sets in relation to other objects. Let's rotate and scale objects.
- If the file is not already open from performing the previous step, go to the book's web page, browse to Chapter 4, download the file Ch4-B.dwg (or Ch4-B-metric.dwg), and open it.
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