topic Re: Rectangle issue in AutoCAD Forum

Rectangle issue

danesamaga2 — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:35:37 GMT

why my rectangle is like this when i stretch corner, this is not what its look like before when i stretch corner it always follow, and when i tabbing it can show box for x axis and y axis. please help

Re: Rectangle issue

imadHabash — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:49:12 GMT

Hi,

@danesamaga2

Grab the middle grip NOT those at the corners.

Re: Rectangle issue

danesamaga2 — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:48:47 GMT

but i always grab the corner, This had not happened before

Re: Rectangle issue

imadHabash — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:30:33 GMT

>> when i tabbing it can show box for x axis and y axis.

you may need to turn ON dynamic input (F12)

>> but i always grab the corner

Are you sure that was a normal rectangle NOT a dynamic block?!! I'm afraid that you're talking about another CAD object BUT not rectangle. Also, if there are any active geometric constraints in your CAD object.

Re: Rectangle issue

danesamaga2 — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:11:56 GMT

(view in My Videos)

yes im using rec, and this picture, this is what it looks like when you stretching corner

Re: Rectangle issue

imadHabash — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:25:40 GMT

The way shown in your video is the standard and normal way for grips in the program.

Re: Rectangle issue

pendean — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:28:55 GMT

@danesamaga2 Stretching closed pline shapes by gripping one point has always done what you show in your two videos (there is no RECTANGLE objects types in AutoCAD). You probably used something else (add-on or custom object) in previous experiences and not closed plines. Your snapshot (no video) is not accurate .

Again, there are no RECTABLE object types in AutoCAD, all you are drawing with RECT command are closed Pline shapes.

To achieve what you desire, you need your shape to be inside a block then use SCALE command perhaps.

Re: Rectangle issue

jreidKVSUZ — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:52:37 GMT

I am not sure, but I just did the same that Dane showed in his video and it worked great.

I used REC and had F8 on, then turned F8 off and it stretched just fine.

Not sure what the difference between what he is trying and what I did.

Thanks, JRR!

(view in My Videos)

Re: Rectangle issue

jreidKVSUZ — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:59:40 GMT

Re-watching the video, are you picking the 2nd point?

It looks like you pick the grip, then just roll around and not 'picking' the 2nd point???

Just a thought.

Thanks, JRR!

Re: Rectangle issue

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:32:07 GMT

Am I correct that what you want to do is to pick a corner grip on a Polyline rectangle, and have the size and proportions of the rectangle adjust as you drag that corner grip around, but with the Polyline remaining rectangular the whole time, with the varying edges remaining orthogonal? In other words, sliding the positions of edges that remain orthogonal, but by dragging one shared end of two edges together, rather than the midpoint of each separately?

I agree that basic AutoCAD has never worked that way. [Within a RECTANG command it works that way, but not in grip-editing.] I suspect you must have had a custom routine* going, or a dynamic Block, or it's a special feature of an overlay program, or something.

Ordinary SCALE won't achieve what you show in your non-video image, because it would need to scale by different ratios in the X & Y directions. But a Block could be worked that way somehow, changing the X & Y scale factors separately.

* Certainly a custom AutoLisp routine could be made to do what I think you want. It would probably work by automating a process such as this [not the only way]:

User selects the rectangle.

Routine checks that it is, in fact, a rectangle, and orthogonally oriented. If so:

User selects the corner to drag.

Routine finds the opposite corner.

Routine starts a RECTANG command at that corner, and lets User drag the opposite corner to draw the object.

Routine copies all Properties from the original to the new rectangle [Layer, color, linetype, etc.].

Routine deletes original rectangle.

Would something like that work for you?

[It could also be done using (grread)/(grdraw)/(grvecs), but doing it in an actual RECTANG command lets Object Snap operate if appropriate, and would allow for the type-in-Dimensions and other options.]

Re: Rectangle issue

TheCADnoob — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:06:41 GMT

Is there a chance that you were using BOX instead of RECATNGLE?

Re: Rectangle issue

jreidKVSUZ — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:40:23 GMT

I am not sure, but clearly you can see he picked the REC icon.

There are only two options in that icon and that is rectangle and polygon.

He drew a rectangle.

Thanks, JRR!

Re: Rectangle issue

pendean — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:07:46 GMT

@jreidKVSUZ wrote:
I am not sure, but clearly you can see he picked the REC icon....

Exactly, and it is not behaving they way they are expecting because that's never been the case. @TheCADnoob was trying to help the OP out by guessing the behavior they remembered applied to a different object type. You're just re-affirming the OP got it wrong 🙂