Stretching Multiple profiles

[muleman1]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[muleman1 · Accepted solution]

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 ????

[danielrmc1726]

hello i've tried to do what you say here but no luck, could you please do a video of the process?

[mick-CNF]

I would suggest where you can keep items "connected" and they will extend with the moved item.

Extend Items | Advance Steel | Autodesk Knowledge Network

[muleman1]

@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

[Jonathan.Jasinski]

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]

@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

[mick-CNF]

System Line Trim | Advance Steel | Autodesk Knowledge Network

[mick-CNF]

System Line Trim | Advance Steel | Autodesk Knowledge Network

[acbsdesign]

@muleman1 

Trim and extend to system line and to line 

[samZT7EV]

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.

[mick-CNF]

This was solved 9 years ago.