Scale function with mouse/cursor

Scale function with mouse/cursor

rodrigo.j.rodriguez
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Scale function with mouse/cursor

rodrigo.j.rodriguez
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I recently had to have the app reinstalled on my profile at my job. As one would expect some settings required adjustment etc but just today something peculiar started happening. I wanted to adjust the size of a group of objects, something I have done a thousand times. I select the group of objects and select the scale function. Normally at this point I select a reference point and adjust the size of the group of objects by dragging the mouse. Now instead of the entire group expanding or contracting when I drag the mouse i get a horizontal line that I guess is a compressed version of the group of objects. When I release the mouse I get a microscopic version of the group that I am attempting to re-size. Please note that I am not going for precision here but rather a simple approximation for something that will not be in a scaled paper space version of the drawing. I don't want to use scale factors for this, just a simple size modification with the mouse.

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Kent1Cooper
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That sounds like maybe you're looking at the world "on edge" relative to the current Coordinate System.  Does it work if you make sure you're in PLAN view in a Coordinate System appropriate to the drawn objects?

Kent Cooper, AIA
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tramber
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Advisor

We should see the screen to understand. As you increase or decrease what i call the brown dotted "elastic line" you should see a preview of the result, wich means more or less than 1 (the unit) ! But this manouver is driven by the object snaping... Are you magnetized by an osnap ?

Do you F3 (short or long push, if ever you knew that there is a difference...) while manipulating ?

What about this "horizontal line" ? Brown and dotted ? What is its length ? You can (and should) read it there :

tramber_0-1680767086469.png

This coords box is not showed after you installed your soft, since a few years, if i am not wrong. This is something i will NEVER understand coming from the supplier of a CAD system... Please, show it 😉


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rodrigo.j.rodriguez
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Interesting. Yes, the line that appears seems to be some version of the items I am attempting to re-size. It does seem as though it may be presenting on edge but only when I attempt to use the Scale function. Do you have any idea as to what view setting I need to modify to change this?

 

Thanks for your help...

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rodrigo.j.rodriguez
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Hi there,

 

Yes I have the "brown dotted line" but the preview of the re-sized object presents as the flat green line as shown in the attached screen shot. I'm afraid that I am not certain what data that you wanted me to capture that wasn't in the first screen shot so this one captures the entire screen view. I hope that works. Thanks for your help on this.

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tramber
Advisor
Advisor

Please : push this button  tramber_0-1680785667134.png

And put Coords on (the first one)

It gonna change your life  😉

I can see 0 in your elastic line length but I'd like you to see that amount in the Coords box.

Still don't know what is this green line if not the result of a huge scaling of a green object standing on the left of the group. Hard to know...

 


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TheCADnoob
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The green line looks like the Autotrack Vector, except it appears to be a solid line on your screenshot. 

 

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2015/ENU/?guid=GUID-4AD5D42E-30DE-42E6-A6EF-28A1A9DA2DB6

CADnoob

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