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Copy with Base Point

Copy with Base Point - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Copy with Base Point

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- [Narrator] We're staying in our Simple Door-36-in.dwg file. And you can see I've left it in the same state as it was at the end of the last video. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to close the blocks palette. We don't need that anymore for this particular video. And what I'm also going to do is I'm going to erase these three blocks that I actually brought into the drawing from the blocks palette. So, I'll select them, right click, erase on the short cut menu, as you would normally with any other AutoCAD object. I'm going to zoom in a little bit now and pan upwards a little bit as well. Just to make those two original blocks that we created at the beginning of the chapter just a little bit bigger so that we can see what's going on in the drawing. Now, what I'm going to do is show you a really nice feature available to you in AutoCAD that you might not be aware exists. It's called copy with base point. Now whilst we're in one particular drawing file, one particular .dwg file…

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