topic Re: scale/extend/stretch/lengthen/whatever multiple lines in AutoCAD Forum

scale/extend/stretch/lengthen/whatever multiple lines

theodore.macaulay — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:00:56 GMT

I have a series of lines all on separate points on the Y axis, I can q select all of them with a single command, how do I then lengthen them all uniformly in both directions on the x-axis without shifting their position?

Re: scale/extend/stretch/lengthen/whatever multiple lines

atGK8NU — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:05:06 GMT

Can you use the crossing mode in the Extend command?

Re: scale/extend/stretch/lengthen/whatever multiple lines

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:28:28 GMT

Not after QSELECTion, but.... LENGTHEN, Delta option, give it the amount, and use Fence selection? You would need to do both ends separately -- LENGTHEN with Fence selection will change only one end of an object if a single selection Fence crosses near both ends.

If they are all starting at the same length, and to be lengthened by the same amount, I have a SCALE-about-the-centers routine that could do that to all of them at once.

An illustration or sample drawing with before and after would ensure we understand what you're asking.

Re: scale/extend/stretch/lengthen/whatever multiple lines

theodore.macaulay — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:16:43 GMT

I don't really see how that helps

Re: scale/extend/stretch/lengthen/whatever multiple lines

theodore.macaulay — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:19:26 GMT

don't see that this screencap is going to provide any information I didn't already but if it helps explain there you go

Re: scale/extend/stretch/lengthen/whatever multiple lines

theodore.macaulay — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:31:43 GMT

anyway I was underslept and dumb. I just drew stretched one line to the correct size then arrayed it. this was a non problem.

Re: scale/extend/stretch/lengthen/whatever multiple lines

Kent1Cooper — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:53:37 GMT

The image didn't tell us much more, not showing [or at least not identifying] a "before" situation and an "after." But given the description of your Stretch-one-and-Array-it solution, I wonder whether this is what you're trying to do:

If so, there's a much easier way to do that than your solution. I'm showing them irregularly spaced in the Y direction, which the much easier way can handle the same as if they're regularly spaced, but Stretch-one-and-Array-it would not be able to do since the Array part would only handle equal spacing. And I'm not talking about drawing Lines at the end limits and Extending to them -- those dotted lines represent just "theoretical" or "virtual" targets in the procedure, not drawn objects.

If you're interested in the much easier way, write back.