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Change axes to draw at odd angles

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Change axes to draw at odd angles

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- [Narrator] Hi, I'm George Maestri and today we'll take a look at axes and ways to change them quickly, so that you don't have to draw weird angles. So let's just take a look at this simple structure here. And as you can see, we've got two little wings here that are at an angle. Now let's say we wanted to draw a pony wall or something like that, some sort of divider. Well we could certainly take the rectangle tool and draw something that's say, parallel to the back wall. But if I wanted to draw something parallel to either one of these angular walls then it becomes kind of a problem. Because I can't just use the rectangle tool. I'll have to actually draw. And actually get inferences and that can get really complex. Now the easier way to do that is to simply switch your drawing axis so that it matches the place that you're drawing into. So let's go ahead and take a look at this corner. If we want to change the axis, all we have to do is use the axis tool. Now we can find that in the…

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