- In this video we're going to learn how to move,
copy, rotate, scale and stretch entities.
And right up here at the top of the screen
you can see right there.
I already have all those selected
and you can see what we have.
So let's go ahead and take a look
at this part here that I have
which is just a basic L-shaped sketch.
Now, if we wanted to move this sketch
we've got a few things, I could grab one of these lines
and I could drag it out
but that's actually changing the shape, right?
What if I want to move everything together?
I can select everything, grab it
and I can move it around, which is pretty handy.
That works well.
But if you want to be a little bit more scientific about it
we can come up here to the move entities
choose that first one there,
and I can select all these
and I'm keeping the relationships.
And then I can use this from to, to or X and Y.
So if I had X, Y I'm just going to type in an X and Y,
delta change, or if I want to go From/To
I can choose a starting point like this one right here.
And now that is attached to my cursor.
So anywhere I want to place it now
I can just click and everything there
will be moved over to that.
Now this is especially handy.
If you've got a very big complicated sketch
with a whole bunch of stuff in it.
I can grab or just select everything in one shot
and then move it very easily with that command.
All right, the next one I want to point out
is the copy entities.
So it works very similar.
I'm going to go ahead and just select overall those.
And I want a copy From/To or X and Y.
So same thing it pretty much looks identical,
my options here, but this time I'm going to say
I like to go from this position here.
So starting point would be right here.
And then I want a copy to maybe the origin.
And there it is.
So now I've made it an exact copy of that shape.
If I come back up here again, I've got to rotate entities.
So again, I can select everything here
and of course we want to keep the relationships.
My center of rotation, I can choose any point I want
or anywhere I want really.
I can choose this point right up here at the top
and now I can define what angle I would like to do
and notice the sketch automatically just updates
with whatever angle I type in here, click OK.
And there you have the design.
Now I do want to point out one thing here
is the way this was originally created
was these are going to be horizontal lines.
And these are vertical lines.
Now, even though I did have that check mark turned on
that says, "Hey, hold on to those relationships"
because I was able to rotate this,
those lines can't be horizontal and vertical,
so it had to delete them.
But if you had some other type of relationship
like a perpendicular, let's try it out here.
Click on this line here, hold down Control.
Click on this line over here
and make these guys perpendicular.
Now they're always going to be perpendicular.
Let's try it one more time.
Select all that, come over here and say, rotate entities.
Those will be selected,
my center rotation is going to be right up here
and I want to then rotate back down.
Click OK.
And notice that relationship has not been deleted
because it was able to be rotated.
So if it's able to be rotated, it'll stay.
If it's not able to be rotated, then it's going to be deleted.
So keep that in mind.
Up here one more time, we're going to do the scale entities.
I'm going to select all these.
Here they are.
I'm going to scale about a point, anyone you want.
That one right there.
And then I can just make this thing a little bit bigger
or a little bit smaller, either way you want to go.
So you can just scale the entire shape very easily.
And we also have the option here
if we wanted to create a exact copy, that's just bigger.
We could do that as well,
so either one of those options will work.
Click, OK, and then we've scaled that entity.
All right, the last one we're going to look at here is
the stretch entities.
And I could choose everything, but more than likely
you're probably going to choose something like three of these.
And I have the option From/To or the X, Y.
So I'm going to choose the from and to
I'm going to choose one of these lines here
and I'm going to choose that point right there.
That's my control point,
I'm grabbing it by that little point.
And now I can just drag and stretch this around
to wherever I'd like to be.
And when you're done click
and that will be your new stretched entity.
Anyways, these tools are all pretty powerful tools.
And they're handy for working with sketches
especially if they're working with more complicated sketches
that have a lot going on
and you can work on them as a whole
and modify them like rotate, scale, stretch, and so on.