- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying
in our Office Layout.dwg file,
and in this particular office layout setup,
we're going to use a bit of grips editing.
Now, I've already mentioned grips a little bit
in some of the other videos in this course,
and basically, when you've got AutoCAD blocks,
they use a grip as the insertion point.
So for example, if I selected one of the desks here,
you can see the little blue grip in the corner there.
If I select the chair,
the chair has a little blue grip at the back there, like so.
I'll just hit Escape a couple of times
to deselect those objects now.
What we're going to do, we're going to select this desk,
this computer, this chair, and this plant.
We're then going to right-click and erase them
on the shortcut menu.
Then zoom in on the space we want to work in.
So I'm going to zoom in nice and tight
so that we can see what's going on
with the desk and the chair, like that.
Let's get that in place, like so.
I'm then going to select this plant,
this desk, this computer, this chair,
and then what I'm going to do,
I'm going to do a little bit of grip editing
to mirror using grips this time
to create another mirrored version of the workstation again,
here in this cubicle.
Now, you can do this using the Mirror command
on the Modify panel,
but you can also edit using grips.
And what I want to get you into
is the ability to know where to look
for these grip editing tools.
They're really useful,
and this is just one particular instance of grips editing.
So I'm going to click on this top grip here for the desk.
Now, if I hover over it,
can you see it kind of goes an orange color
and the crosshair kind of locks onto it?
As soon as it does, left-click.
And you'll notice now, can you see the grip goes red?
It's known as a hot grip,
and it's the grip that you're using.
Now, if I right-click with that grip,
can you see I've got some editing tools on the Shortcut menu
that are context sensitive?
So I can now Stretch, Move, Rotate, Scale,
and surprise, surprise, Mirror is on the Shortcut menu.
So when you're grips editing,
you get Mirror on the Shortcut menu.
When you're regular editing using the regular Shortcut menu,
you'll find that Mirror isn't there.
These are all grip editing tools.
So it's a lot of right-clicking.
I'm going to click on Mirror on the Shortcut menu.
I'm then going to, as you can see,
right-click again and Copy,
'cause I need to make sure that I copy the original objects,
and I don't want to mirror from that grip there,
the red one, so I'm going to right-click again
and select Base Point.
I'm going to change the base point of the mirror
to that little midpoint snapping in.
Remember that from last time?
Left-click on the midpoint snap,
and just come vertically up the polar tracking line,
and you'll now see the mirror.
Now, make sure you're on the polar tracking line
when you left-click.
It's sometimes a good idea to go
all the way through the wall up to there, like that.
And there's the polar tracking.
Left-click once, and there's the mirrored objects.
Now, it's going to try and mirror again, as you can see.
So you just need to press Enter
to come out of the Mirror command,
the grip editing Mirror command, I hasten to add.
And you must remember to hit Escape a couple of times
to deselect the original objects.
And as you can see,
we've now got a mirrored desk, computer, chair, et cetera,
and it's all been mirrored in exactly the same way visually,
just using a different methodology.
So you see how those grips can be incredibly useful
when you're working in your AutoCAD drawings, as well.
Just do a quick double-click on the wheel of your mouse
to zoom extents,
and then roll back one notch on the wheel
to zoom out slightly.
You can now see that we've got
a really nicely-edited office layout drawing.