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LESSON 4. Basic drawing and editing: Mercury Spacecraft Console Panel Section

STEP 3. Copy the rest of the knobs.

Looking at the completed drawing , we see that we need a total of 5 knobs and that they are all in a line and evenly spaced. We also see that each knob has a label next to it. We will use the Rectangle command to draw the outline of the label. When prompted for the corners of the rectangle, click on the grid dots indicated by labels D1 and D2 in the figure below.

Now use the Copy command to make 4 copies of the circle and rectangle.

When you click you will be prompted to "Select Entities". You can either pick the circle and rectangle individually by clicking on them with the mouse, or you can put a window around both of them by clicking at the grid dots indicated by labeled D1 and D2 below.

Click the right mouse button to stop selecting entities. The prompt will now read "Copy: From?" Click on the grid dot in the center of the circle. The prompt will now read "Copy: To?" Drag the mouse down until the space next to "D" at the bottom of the screen reads "1.5". Click the left button. Your result should look like the Figure below.

The prompt will again read "Copy: From?" Click on the center of the purple circle. The prompt will then read "Copy: To?" Drag the mouse down until the box next to "D" at the bottom of the screen reads "1.5". Your CadStd screen should look like the figure below:

Continue making copies until you have a total of 5 sets of circles and rectangles as shown below:

Press Escape to stop copying. Click on Next below to go to the next step.