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In today's video tutorial we're going to be covering how to change the dimensions and how

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to rotate an object but with greater precision using the ruler tool and the online version of

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Tinkercad. So we're going to start off by selecting an object. I'm just going to go over here and I'm

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going to drop it on my grid like so. As you remember from previous tutorials you can click

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on any of these points and you can change the dimensions manually but for today we're going

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to use the ruler tool for greater precision to use the ruler tool you simply need to click it

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and then you're going to drag it over and you're going to drop this little red circle at the zero

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zero coordinates point so this is perfect because we can see that we have zero here zero here and

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zero here you can change these coordinates if you want greater space you can also change the

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dimensions in here for instance we can change the dimension of the height as so if you want to

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change the space or see the amount of space between your object and the ruler point you

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simply need to select this red circle and you're going to pull it outward like so

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and you'll be able to see the difference let's see the space if you want to increase or decrease this

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amount of space from the object you can click inside and change it so there's more space

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there we go the point of the ruler is the spatial difference between the object

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and your reference point with the ruler we can create a spatial reference

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and you can change the dimensions like i already said um the width the height the length by

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selecting these boxes so let's go ahead and just do that quickly we can also

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rotate the object by selecting this kind of circular arrow right here and the

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great thing about using the ruler is when you use it the dimensions of the

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angles they're shown as you can see all the time on your grid same thing if you

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add another object such as this sphere and so we delete the ruler you're just

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going to click right here and then the dimensions will go away and that

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concludes our video tutorial for today