2. Manipulation palette

Manipulation palette

The Transformations menu provides access to the geometric transformation tools for the selected objects (translation, rotation, mirror and slant).

Icon 1 - The Rotation command rotates the selected object or makes copies of it and distributes them around a rotation axis.

Icon 2 - The Slant command reshapes the selected object according to two slanting angles, or makes reshaped copies and distributes them along a translation axis.

Icon 3 - The Resize command changes the size of the selected object or makes copies of a different size and distributes them along a translation axis.

Icon 4 -The Mirror command inverts the selected object (see the example opposite), and can rotate the object if necessary.