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Mirror - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Mirror

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- [Instructor] Mirror is a fairly descriptive name for our next tool, as that's just what it does. It mirrors or flips our geometry around an axis that we specify. The tool is found here under the modify tool panel. I'll select my objects and press return. Now I'm asked to specify the first point of my mirror line. This is the axis about which we're going to mirror our objects. So I'm going to go ahead and click here and then drag my cursor. We can see how the effect of moving this mirror line affects the result. I want to mirror this horizontally, so I'm going to hold down the shift key so I get a perfectly vertical line, and then I'll click. Now I'm asked what I want to do with the original source objects. If I type in Y, the original objects will be deleted. Or if I just press return to accept no, they'll be left intact, and I'm left with my original and my mirrored copy. I want to do this again with the…

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