Stretch command glitch?

Stretch command glitch?

steveYEJ6T
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Stretch command glitch?

steveYEJ6T
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I have recently noticed that the stretch command now seems to fail if you zoom or pan after you have made your selection and selected a base point (as I recall, it only used to fail if you zoomed before selecting the base point). This is very frustrating when you need to find a particular snap point to stretch to that requires a zoom. I am currently working on tracing a point cloud and need to zoom out to start the stretch outwith the clip frame of the cloud and can't then zoom in to find the point I need to stretch to.

 

Is this a glitch just in my machine/installation, or is anyone else experiencing this?

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pendean
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Hasn't it always had that limitation?

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steveYEJ6T
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No, it would fail if you zoomed after selecting a crossing but not after you selected the base point.
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steveYEJ6T
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After a restart, it seems to mostly have stopped on its own. The only issues that seem to persist is it still occasionally happens, when tracing and adjusting lines over point clouds.

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steveYEJ6T
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Problem back again although intermittent, but in drawing with no point clouds present. Seem to switch between three modes:

1: won't stretch anything if you move after selection

2: will stretch only the selected grips  remaining in view after zooming, i.e. will make a vertical/line slop etc. (admittedly as I recall this used to be a common issue)

3: will stretch all the items selected as intended.

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RobDraw
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I can't replicate the behavior.


Rob

Drafting is a breeze and Revit doesn't always work the way you think it should.
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pendean
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>>>...although intermittent...<<<
There is no permanent cure for something you cannot recreate on demand 10% of the time (and neither can we): "intermittent" usually means you might have simply overlooked something very obvious and unique for that moment, it happens to all of us. Take the time and dig deeper, or just start the process over again. Its what we all do too.



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steveYEJ6T
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Problem seems to happen in some drawings but not in others, so would appear to be a setting that is drawing specific rather than universal across autocad

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arxtek
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I am having similar problems.  Solidcad checked what I was doing, and it seems that due to the drawing being in "shaded mode", things like this fail.  When switched back to simple wireframe, all was good.  Thank you, SolidCad.

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MarkRitter2022
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This problem has been driving me nuts! Thank you for finding that out...I switched to 2D wireframe, no more problem! Was stretching and had to zoom in and out to use point filters.

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ktedder
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Thank you - was about ready to re-install.  No trouble with trim after swapping back to 2d wireframe as well.

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Anonymous
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Thanks so much for this fix.

 

This issue has been driving me crazy over the years, it would glitch in some drawings and not others and could never figure out why. Choosing 2D Wireframe seems to solve it. I must have switched away from 2D Wireframe accidentally and not noticed that was the problem.

 

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