- [Instructor] We're staying in our officelayout.dwg file
and we're going to take a look at the Move and Copy commands
available to you in AutoCAD.
Now, you've got two ways,
well, you've actually got four ways of doing this,
but you've got two ways on screen in front of you
that will allow you to move and copy.
I can go up to Move or Copy here
on the Modify Panel, on the Home Tab.
There's Move, there's Copy.
If I click on either of those,
Copy then prompts me to select the object I want to copy.
I could also select the object first
with the noun/verb selection setting,
and then select Copy here,
and it prompts me for a base point to copy.
However, the quickest way you'll often find
is to select the object, like the desk,
right click, and you've got Move and Copy
on the Shortcut menu.
So you select the object, right click,
and select Move or Copy here.
I'm going to select Move in this case,
and as soon as I obviously click on Move
on the shortcut menu,
it's asking me for a base point,
where I want to move that desk to.
So, I'm going to pick the top corner here, like so.
There's my endpoint snap.
My object snaps are on to allow me
to obviously move around accurately in my AutoCAD drawing.
And I'm going to click once and I'm going to come over here
and I'm going to put this in the middle cubicle
by going to that corner there.
Now, it might show as an intersection,
it might show as an endpoint,
but just click there like that
and there's my desk in place in my cubicle.
Now you can see the desk fits the cubicle exactly.
That's why I used this drawing and created this drawing,
so you don't have to worry about that.
So that's a move.
Now, it may be that I want to copy the desk as well.
So what I can do there,
a Move and a Copy follow a very similar workflow.
So if I select the desk again
and then I right click again using the shortcut menu
and I go to Copy selection.
And what I can do now,
just hover over that corner of the desk,
you notice I don't have to get the crosshair
dead on the corner as well.
The endpoint snap appears when I get close to it.
Left click.
So, I'm copying it now, so the original stays behind,
and I'm going to come over here
and use this corner here, like so, and click there.
And then you can see I can copy
add nodes even if I want to,
and then I'm going to press Enter, like so.
Now one of the things you'll notice there
is that desk in the bottom left corner
is a bit of a misnomer, isn't it?
I can't get behind the desk.
It's kind of blocking the space.
Don't worry.
We're going to cover things like mirror
and rotate and things later.
So we can either mirror that desk or possibly rotate it
so that people can get to the desk in a moment.
What we're also going to do now
is we're going to use the Move and Copy again,
but we're just going to do them very quickly
and very slap dash like,
because I want to get you into other tools that you can use,
like Rotate and Scale and so on.
So what we're going to do,
is we're going to bring this plant here,
so click on it, right lick, and a Move,
and I'm just going to pick a point towards the center.
Doesn't matter which object snap you get,
and I'm going to pop that just there
inside the office space there, like so.
And then I'm going to select it again,
and then it's a right click and Copy selection.
And again, I'm going to pick near the middle
and possibly place one down here somewhere as well.
Just decorating the office a little bit.
And then I'll just press Enter to finish, like so.
Now what we're also going to do,
is take the computer here, like so,
click on the computer, it's a right click,
and we're going to do a Move and just pick a point.
I'm going to go for that midpoint snap on top,
and I'm going to pop one just there on that desk, like that.
Same with the chair, select the chair, right click, Move.
And I'm going to pick a point on the midpoint
at the top of the chair
and pop that there, like so.
Now we've got the chair and the computer
near the desk there.
Now, the trick is we've done some moving
and some copying there
so we're starting to see what we want to see.
But what we're also going to do now
is move into other commands
so that we can tidy up our office layout
and obviously make things
like the desk in the bottom left corner actually work
so that people can go and sit at the desk.