topic Re: align - divide - line in AutoCAD Forum

align - divide - line

zsolt — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:07:35 GMT

hello

help me please. the situation is the next:

in attachment, is 9 polylines. in first segment offset is 500 , the second segment (at the same) offset is 500.

i/m looking for the fastest solution for the third segment to be 500 offset. Baseline is the blue line.

thanks

Re: align - divide - line

GrantsPirate — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:10:33 GMT

Draw a line at 45 degrees intersecting the vertical lines, where the vertical crosses the diagonal line is the correct spacing, adjust to the intersections.

Re: align - divide - line

Kent1Cooper — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:11:29 GMT

I don't know whether this will be any faster than GrantsPirate's suggestion [which would require Stretching each Polyline individually to take that one edge and corner to the intersection with the diagonal Line], but.... If circumstances allow, consider Erasing all but the "original" one, and going into Offset at the distance you want, and Offsetting in sequence to "bring them back" with the one segment at the same distancing as the others.

Re: align - divide - line

JDMather — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:18:38 GMT

Am I going to suggest grid and snap.... .... first time I've turned those on in 30 years....

Re: align - divide - line

Kent1Cooper — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:50:21 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Am I going to suggest grid and snap....

That's great [well, Snap is -- having the Grid on isn't necessary] provided, in a situation of already-drawn Polylines, that the parts that should stay where they are lie on the Snap locations, or if you either Move the Polylines so that they do, or set the SNAPBASE System Variable to [in the case of the example] the corner between the lower horizontal segment and the vertical segment of the "original" Polyline. Then you can pick any Polyline, and just grab vertex grips on the edges that are in the wrong place and haul them to the appropriate locations. And of course it's great if you have Snap on when you draw the first one, but in that case, you're not working with already-drawn Polylines, so you don't need Snap but can do it with just Offset, whether or not the first one lies on Snap locations.