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About Translating, Rotating, and Scaling a Section
You can translate, rotate, or scale an existing sketcher geometry or an imported or pasted sketch geometry within an active sketch. The geometry you select to translate, rotate, or scale appears within a bounding box with the following handles:
The translation handle appears at the center of the bounding box.
The rotation handle appears at the upper right corner of the bounding box.
The scale handle appears at the lower right corner of the bounding box.
You can move the translation, rotation, or scale handles from their original locations. To move these handles, right-click a handle and drag the handle to a new location.
Consider the following points when you translate, rotate, or scale the sketcher geometry:
The original position of the translation, rotation, and scale handles appear in dimmed color when you perform a translation, rotation, or scale operation.
The translation, rotation, or scaling dimensions that appear during the translation, rotation, or scaling operations, are removed after you complete these operations.
Dimensions and constraints are created when you complete the translation, rotation, or scaling operation. These dimensions and constraints are independent of the changes to the geometry as a result of the translation, rotation, or scaling operation.
You can undo or redo the translation, rotation, or scaling operation.
While performing a translation, rotation, or scaling operation, you can undo or redo any of these operations to attain an intermediate state of the geometry. After you complete the translation operation you cannot replay the intermediate state of the geometry.
After you complete the translation, rotation, or scaling operation by quitting the Rotate Resize tab, the undo operation displays the geometry in the state before the translation operations.
To access the Rotate Resize tab, click Sketch > Rotate Resize. In addition, the Rotate Resize tab opens automatically when you perform one of the following operations:
Paste a copied or cut geometry.
Import a shape from the Sketcher palette.
Import an existing section from the file system.
 
* You cannot scale a section if you use Paste Special to paste a copied or cut section.