
200 ■ Chapter 3: Manipulating Objects
Practice Exercise: Rotate Objects
In this practice exercise, you draw a rectangle and
rotate it using grips, the Rotate command, and the
Reference option.
1.
Draw a rectangle of any size.
2.
To use the grips to rotate the object:
■ With the command line blank, select the
object.
■ Select one of the grips.
■ Right-click the active grip. Click Rotate.
■ Drag the mouse around the rotation point,
which is the grip that you selected.
■ Click in the drawing window to rotate the
rectangle. This is a random rotation angle.
■ Press ESC to deactivate the grip selection.
3.
Rotate the object again using the Rotate
command this time.
■ On the Home tab, click Modify Panel >
Rotate.
■ At the Select object prompt, select the
rectangle and press ENTER.
■ At the prompt, specify the lower left
corner as the basepoint.
■ Enter a rotation angle of 10. Press ENTER.
■ Notice that the object is rotated 10
degrees counterclockwise.
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