topic Re: Offset Multiple doesn't work with Crossing selection in AutoCAD Forum

Offset Multiple doesn't work with Crossing selection

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:03:10 GMT

I am trying to offset multiple objects with "offset" then "crossing" (to selct several objects). This used to work but now doesn't (?). Picadd and pickfirst are set to 1. Any solution?

Re: Offset Multiple doesn't work with Crossing selection

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:04:43 GMT

I am trying to offset multiple objects with "offset" then "crossing" (to selct several objects). This used to work but now doesn't (?). Picadd and pickfirst are set to 1. Any solution?

Re: Offset Multiple doesn't work with Crossing selection

sthompson1021 — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:21:35 GMT

I'm not sure if selecting more then one object at a time to offset has ever worked. I know that it hasn't in at least the last 10 or 12 releases.

Re: Offset Multiple doesn't work with Crossing selection

john.vellek — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:48:37 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I suspect that you used to use a LISP routine to do this. Can you Make a quick Screencast showing the actions you used to take to get this to work?

You can also check the Autodesk App Store to see if there is an add-in that will do this for you.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: Offset Multiple doesn't work with Crossing selection

gotphish001 — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:48:43 GMT

I don't think that ever was a thing either as far as I know. Did your office have a lisp that was doing it maybe? You could just use copy to offset multiple things at once by incremental increases of the copy distance. If you wanted to offset 3' 3 times, copy in that direction and use distance 3' 6' 9'.

Re: Offset Multiple doesn't work with Crossing selection

Kent1Cooper — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:54:22 GMT

@gotphish001 wrote:

.... You could just use copy to offset multiple things at once by incremental increases of the copy distance. If you wanted to offset 3' 3 times, copy in that direction and use distance 3' 6' 9'.

That sounds to me more like Offsetting one object multiple times, rather than Offsetting multiple objects, i.e. different ones that could be selected at the same time with a Crossing window, as described in Post 1.

Repeating part of my Reply to where this showed up on a not-quite-the-right-Subject thread, and expanding on others' suspicions about a custom routine:

I don't recall Offset ever working that way. Did you have a custom routine? How did it function? Did you have to give it one pick for the which-side answer to all selected objects at once [in which case I imagine it could often be hard to get the results you want], or did it ask for a which-side pick for each object in turn? I have an Offset-to-Both-Sides routine that lets you pick multiple objects, because there's no need for it to ask which side, but if Offsetting to only one side....

Re: Offset Multiple doesn't work with Crossing selection

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:55:45 GMT

Thanks for the prompt response. I don't use this forum often, but do search
it for answers. The problem is with me, not Autocad. As a private
practitioner (Architect) I am only drafting about a third of my time in the
office and I simply forgot that I need to use the "array" command instead
of "offset" to deal with multiple lines.

Because of this forum, it became clear to me after some reading, what was
the problem.

Thanks again.

Re: Offset Multiple doesn't work with Crossing selection

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:58:02 GMT

As I mentioned elsewhere, I forgot that the "Array" command is used, instead of "Offset" to deal with multiple lines.