topic Re: resizing a rectangular in AutoCAD Forum

resizing a rectangular

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 20:16:07 GMT

Hello,
I know this is a easy question but I am having problems on getting this to work. Lets say I have a simple rectangle 1100'x1700' and I want it to be 11"x17".
How would you do this in civil 3d if some one can show me a video that would be helpful.
Thanks

Re: resizing a rectangular

Anonymous — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 20:53:01 GMT

I want to use the scale command.

Thanks

Re: resizing a rectangular

ara_neresesian — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 21:10:52 GMT

as you said its very simple with easy way

1-scale

2-select object.

3-select one base point

4-input 0.01 <------------(11 / 1100=0,01)

1-scale

2-select object.

3-select one base point

4- type R ( use this method when its hard to find scale factors by mind)

4-Specify reference length 1100
5-Specify new length 11

see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrgD47Kgxqs

good luck

Re: resizing a rectangular

ara_neresesian — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 06:14:11 GMT

see this video.

Re: resizing a rectangular

Kent1Cooper — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 15:15:00 GMT

@ara_neresesian wrote:

...

4-input 0.01 <------------(11 / 1100=0,01)

or

....

4-Specify reference length 1100
5-Specify new length 11

….

That should be:

….

4-input 1/1200 <------------(11 inches to 1100 feet)

....

4-Specify reference length 1100'
5-Specify new length 11

You can include the inches mark after that last 11, or not.