topic Re: is there anyway to shape this desing to square? in AutoCAD Forum

is there anyway to shape this desing to square?

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 10:16:38 GMT

Hello ppl im trying to fit that desing into a square shape but failing, searched stretch yet it aslo did not help. does anybody know an autamated (ex: block scaling)way to change this shape to square? thanks.

Re: is there anyway to shape this desing to square?

SEANT61 — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 10:24:21 GMT

Do you mean squared off, or actual square?

Re: is there anyway to shape this desing to square?

imadHabash — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 10:26:10 GMT

HI,

you have first to modify the two horizontal lines to be not perspective and as you start to do from the two horizontal red lines.after you get full rectangle you can to convert it as a block then insert it again and change the x or y factor to become a square.

Re: is there anyway to shape this desing to square?

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 13:38:02 GMT

Thanks for help much appretiated yet i still cant understand how it is done

Re: is there anyway to shape this desing to square?

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:48:31 GMT

A video or screen shot tutorial would help a ton if you know a source

Re: is there anyway to shape this desing to square?

john.vellek — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 19:07:29 GMT

Hi @SEANT61,

Nice job! Can you share how you did this process to help the OP?

Re: is there anyway to shape this desing to square?

Patchy — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 19:25:41 GMT

Something like this?

http://www.screencast.com/t/SAqWNXpN3L

from here:

https://apps.autodesk.com/ACD/en/Detail/Index?id=7033830822584405086&appLang=en&os=Win32_64

Re: is there anyway to shape this desing to square?

john.vellek — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 19:28:40 GMT

Hi @Patchy,

Thanks for the links. I have not tried this add-in but it looks pretty slick!

Re: is there anyway to shape this desing to square?

SEANT61 — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 21:54:24 GMT

Sorry, got pulled away from the desk. Yes, indeed. That is the add-in and procedure (only with the "ToOrtho" toggle) employed.

Re: is there anyway to shape this desing to square?

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 07:34:33 GMT

This came very handy thanks a lot, i wonder if its possible to maintain connection points tho. Once i used the 2d add-in all the connection points got separated somehow so i had to connect them 1 by 1 again in order to region them and that was a extremely exhausting process.

Re: is there anyway to shape this desing to square?

SEANT61 — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 09:09:05 GMT

The routine uses a modest Tolerance setting - to keep execution time fairly quick. The resultant geometry can be scaled such that any misalignment can be minimized to stay within the REGION commands tolerance. See attached. Both original and corrected have produced the same number (62) Regions.

The geometry can be rescaled as needed.

Re: is there anyway to shape this desing to square?

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:32:52 GMT

That`s what I've been specifically looking for thanks, would you please tell me how did you manage to keep connection points? when i try that i get only a little partition of regions which i previously created. example blue regions created before pro2d and green ones are after the pro2d.

Re: is there anyway to shape this desing to square?

SEANT61 — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:32:16 GMT

Needed further scaling. See if this will region.

I may have to revisit that routine and add an option to modify tolerances. Let the user decide between speed or accuracy.

Re: is there anyway to shape this desing to square?

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:43:14 GMT

That worked with every region, i assume it's something about tolerance tweaks of pro2d you mentioned, this addon going to be very useful if i can change the tolerance settings to maintain regions in place. It can save a lot of time in that case. May i ask your tolerance number in that last attachment and where do i change it (if i can change it)

Re: is there anyway to shape this desing to square?

SEANT61 — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 11:53:55 GMT

As far as I know, the tolerance for Region creation is hard coded by Autodesk. The only influence a users has is via scaling.