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So now I'd like to talk a little bit about the Flip Along function in SketchUp. The Flip Along function is accessed through a Context Click. You can access it right here in the Flip Along, Component's Red, Component's Green, or Component's Blue Menu. This will be different depending on whatever Context Menu you're getting but it will always be accessed in the same way. Alternately you can access this Context Menu by going to the Edit Menu and at the very bottom you'll have access to the same Context Menu. Right now I'm going to go ahead and flip Sang along his red axis. As you can see that makes him face the opposite direction. I want to go ahead and return him back to his original orientation. And now I want to show you some applications of the Flip Along Tool, but I'm going to use some techniques and some tools that I haven't shown you before and I'm going to explain these tools and techniques in greater detail later down the line so I don't want you to get too confused about them. Primarily we're just focusing on the Flip Along Tool and its application for right now. so the very first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and reveal some geometry that I've already created and this geometry is going to show simply a reflection of Sang in a black floor and, you know, this could be anything. It could be water, it could be glass, it doesn't much matter, but the idea is, is that we've created a reflection, which you can't really do in SketchUp. It doesn't happen that way, but we can fake it by flipping a copy of whatever geometry we want to mirror and then placing it underneath a plane that is partially transparent. And again, I'll explain how we do those things later, but I just wanted to show you that that's one application for the Flip Along function. Another application for the Flip Along function is to take a profile that you've created of some sort of geometric object or even a hand drawn object and I'll explain those concepts later and then you can simply copy and Paste them. And here I'm going to go ahead and copy this. I'm going to go Edit, Copy and I'm going to Paste it in place and then I'm going to access the Flip Along function and I want to go ahead and flip this along the red. When I do that I have the ability to now grab it, drag it over, constrain it so that they're touching to one another and then I can simply grab my Select Tool, select both of them, do another copy, do another paste in place, do another flip and this time we're going to flip these guys in the green. Now we go ahead, click and drag, constrain and boom. There we go. We have this nice complex geometric pattern that we created by repeating and flipping this geometry. Now, what would you use this for? Well, here's an example of something that's more finished utilizing the same technique. So here we have a very complex middle type punched out grill that was created utilizing these techniques where I basically flipped something, flipped it again, flipped it again, flipped it again until I had a nice repeating pattern. This is a very easy way of creating complicated, interesting patterns that you would have a great deal of difficulty trying to create in any other way. The Flip Along Tool is very useful and there are other ways of getting similar effects in SketchUp which I'll cover at a later date, but I wanted you to understand that the Flip Along Tool basically works exclusively with the axes.