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CHAPTER 1 GETTING TO KNOW VIZ
3. Click and hold your mouse at a point below and to the left of the original chair. Then drag to
the right and up. Notice that a dotted rectangle follows your cursor, as shown in Figure 1.14.
Figure 1.14
Placing the selection
rectangle around
the chairs
4. Continue to drag the cursor up and to the right until it encloses both chairs. Then release the
mouse button. Both chairs are selected.
Notice that selection brackets (or bounding boxes) appear at the corners of both chairs, and a
gizmo appears between them, indicating that the two objects are selected. You can select objects in
a couple of other ways, which you’ll learn about in a moment, but first, let’s use the current selec-
tion to make a few more copies of the box.
1. Click the Select and Move tool in the Main toolbar.
2. Hold the Shift key down and drag the X axis arrow of the Move Transform gizmo back so
that copies of the two chairs appear in the location shown in Figure 1.15. (You don’t need to
be exact about the placement of the copies.)
Figure 1.15
Place the copies just
beyond your first
two boxes.
3. When you have the copies in place, release the mouse button.
4. In the Clone Options dialog box, make sure Copy is selected in the Object group and
click OK.
Click and drag
from here
to here
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