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The Select and Rotate tool’s methods are the same as those for the Select and Move tool. You
can rotate an object graphically by clicking and dragging the object, or, with an object selected,
you can enter an exact rotation value in the coordinate readout. When the Absolute/Offset Mode
Transform Type-In button is in the Absolute mode, you can control the orientation in relation to
the objects original orientation when it was created. In the Offset mode, you can control the ori-
entation relative to the objects current orientation.
Now try out the Scale tool:
1. With the box selected, click the Select and Uniform Scale tool in the main toolbar. The
Scale Transform gizmo appears, showing the X, Y, and Z orientation of the box in relation
to the viewport.
2. Click in the center of the Scale gizmo that appears or the box itself and drag up. The box
grows uniformly in size.
3. Click and hold the Select and Uniform Scale tool. Then, from the flyout select the middle
tool, which is the Select and Non-uniform Scale tool, as shown in Figure 1.26. This step is
not absolutely required; it is presented here to clarify the concept. The axis handles alone
can be used to scale an object non-uniformly.
4. Drag the XY-plane handle of the Scale gizmo (highlighted in yellow) to non-uniformly scale
the box in the XY-plane in this case, but not along the Z-axis. Similarly, the axis handles can
be dragged individually to constrain the scaling of an object to one axis (Figure 1.27).
Figure 1.25
Rotating the box
about the X-axis
Figure 1.26
The Scale flyout
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