Showing a swept path

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am currently moving a vehicle template along a curved path and would like to lay down numerous copies of the block effectively showing the vehicle's movement. At the moment I am currently moving the vehicle some arbitrary distance, copying the vehicle in place (using the copy command, selecting a base point and clicking again on that base point) then moving the vehicle and repeating the process. Is there an easier way of doing this? Perhaps some kind of keyboard shortcut which creates a copy of an object and pastes it in the exact same place?

Thankyou in advance.

[steven-g]

Starting the copy command and just hit enter twice, or once in the copy command you can place multiple copies, alternatively if you have a path drawn that you are using you could use either the array command or measure or divide which will accept a block as the point marker and also align the block to the path automatically, (providing the block is aligned correctly to the insertion point).

[h_s_walker]

Have you tried using the ARRAYPATH function. This also has the added benefit of automatically rotating your objects

[pendean]

Sounds like you are ready to move up to full AutocAD and this add-on from Autodesk https://www.autodesk.com/products/vehicle-tracking/overview

[Anonymous]

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@h_s_walker wrote:

Have you tried using the ARRAYPATH function. This also has the added benefit of automatically rotating your objects

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ARRAYPATH does not benefit me in this case because it does not work with 2 base points. 

[h_s_walker]

Can you post an image or the drawing showing exactly what you're trying to do.