topic Re: Scaling in one direction onlly? in AutoCAD Forum

Scaling in one direction onlly?

russel — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:04:47 GMT

using autocad 2018. im in paper space and I want to scale up my object but I only want to scale it in the Y or vertical direction. how do I scale my object without scaling it in both directions? thanks.

Re: Scaling in one direction onlly?

Jay_B — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:13:26 GMT

The STRETCH command may work, what object type do you wish to scale?

Re: Scaling in one direction onlly?

russel — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:15:32 GMT

I just want to scale up some line segments in order to see them more clearly.

Re: Scaling in one direction onlly?

imadHabash — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:21:38 GMT

Hi,

>> how do I scale my object without scaling it in both directions? <<

either you insert your elements as block or xref and while the procedure play with X , Y factors as your need .

Regards,

Re: Scaling in one direction onlly?

Jay_B — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:25:23 GMT

Sounds like the EXTEND command, using the FENCE option may work.

Re: Scaling in one direction onlly?

russel — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:34:35 GMT

what I ended up having to do was to turn my object into a W-Block and insert the object and change the scaling along the Y. thanks.

Re: Scaling in one direction onlly?

russel — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:35:04 GMT

it was a little more work than I wanted to do but it did the job.

Re: Scaling in one direction onlly?

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:22:12 GMT

There are routines out there that will automate that for you, for instance this one. I think that one does it by Block rather than Wblock, but the concept is essentially the same. Some Searching will probably find others.

Re: Scaling in one direction onlly?

scot-65 — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 22:34:11 GMT

Kent's answer is the best:
command BLOCK.

Occasionally I will take a lattice hatch pattern and Copy-clip/Paste the
hatch as a unnamed block, then play with the x-scale to be 0.707
(first "flatten" the hatch field).

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Re: Scaling in one direction onlly?

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