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Stretching Multiple profiles

muleman1
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Stretching Multiple profiles

muleman1
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I have a rack I am trying to stretch/extend all 54 angles 1/8" in one direction at once. Any ideas?

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Anonymous
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hi,

just good old autocad stretch?
de select a few profiles and it shood work.

in AS if you have made an shortening at beam end, you can move all shortenings at once.
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muleman1
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I tried many ways to multiple stretch with no avail. Even drew a huge plate thinking I could extend or use as a cut to object, but AS would not recognize the plate as an object ??? as a 'cut to' object ...... finally after wasting a couple hours on Google, selected all the angles, then 'shift selected' each system line end grip and was able to stretch all 54 at once.......this is easy and intuitive ????

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danielrmc1726
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hello i've tried to do what you say here but no luck, could you please do a video of the process?
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mick-CNF
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I would suggest where you can keep items "connected" and they will extend with the moved item.

 

Extend Items | Advance Steel | Autodesk Knowledge Network

 

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muleman1
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@danielrmc1726  the screencast we attched is the way we did it. There is most likely a better way and we hope to learn it...  https://autode.sk/3BPLMJT

 

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Jonathan.Jasinski
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You were on the right track with your plate idea.  But you need to draw a beam with the system line where you want the beams stretched to.  Then you can use the Advance Trim/Extend to that dummy beam.  The good news is that you only need a single dummy beam for all the items to be trimmed/extended.

muleman1
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@Jonathan.Jasinski  I have wasted countless hours in the past trying to get the "Advance Trim/Extend to the dummy beam". At your lesuire, would you be kind enough to post a screencast of how to accomplish that

 

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mick-CNF
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System Line Trim | Advance Steel | Autodesk Knowledge Network

 

 

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System Line Trim | Advance Steel | Autodesk Knowledge Network

 

 

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acbsdesign
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@muleman1 

 

Trim and extend to system line and to line 

 

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samZT7EV
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In Advance Tool Pallet go to 'Features'

Use shorten at UCS. This will also stretch multiple beams to your UCS.

 

I've just used this workaround to stretch +100 purlins.

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mick-CNF
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This was solved 9 years ago.

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