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Using Move and Copy

Using Move and Copy

We're staying in our OfficeLayout.dwg file and we're going to take a quick look at the move and copy commands available to you in AutoCAD. Now we're going to move some furniture around and place it in the little office layout here on the left. Now you'll notice on the modify panel on the home tab on the ribbon, we have move and copy up here, but you don't need to use those ones. you can do is you can actually use move and copy on the shortcut menu and it tends to be a little bit quicker so I'm going to select the desk here like so and I'm not going to use the little blue grip I'm going to right click and go to the shortcut menu and select move now you always when it asks for a base point when you're modifying objects and geometry you go to a point on the object it's the point that you're moving from so I'm going to come here there's the end point snap, left click, make sure your object snaps are on obviously to do this and then we're going to come in here now if you want to get this…

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