I am working on a 2-D drawing that will be later cut out with a CNC Plasma cutter. Right now everything is fine and working. The finished drawing is about 3.5' wide and 5' length. I want to cut this same drawing out a 2nd time but have it 1/2 the size. I tried to rescale the image but it doesn't change the dimensions of any of the lines.
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I am working on the layout space in the dwg, I thought if I worked in model space it would allow me to select the jpeg, this does not work ....
I need to be able to re-size images that are large than 1MB in order to put them on our MLS site.
My previous computer had 2 arrow icons on the desktop.
One was for re-sizing horizontal pics and the other for re-sizing vertical pics.
I could simply drag/drop the image file onto these re-sizing icons and they would be re-sized.
The smaller file size thumbnail would appear on the desktop.
How can I get these re-sizing tools on my new computer's desktop?
I am using CS6.
I was wondering how you can resize 3d objects, eg) there is a wall 5 feet long and a hole for a window 1ft from the left. How can I resize the wall to, say 9ft with the window hole staying 1ft from the left hand side? Assume I can only resize from the LHS as the RHS is attached to another wall or something.
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I have attached an image which illustrates what I'm trying to achieve. See "Listbox.gif"
I've had some problems with dimension fonts resizing to the last edited dim style. I have attached an example drawing. There are 2 styles here 'Gdims' and 'Stand Dims' The Gdims need to be small font and the Stand dims need to be larger. I have set the size of each style, but if I stretch the larger dimensions they auto resize the font to the set size of my last amended dim style (in this case GDims). You'll see in the attachment that I have resized the 2 blocks and the dimension font has become smaller than the rest.
Not all of my drawing behave in the same way so I'm assuming there's a setting I need to change, but as yet I haven't found it.
I have an assembly that is nearly completed. I am trying to change the lengths of two side rails (arrow pointing to one of them). On each end of these rails are several components that have been constrained to the rails.
When I change the length of the rails, many of the constraints show errors. I expected that all components would move with the ends of the rails as they are shortened since that is where they were constrained, but this has not happened.
The constraint recovery tool has not been useful to me.
I'm trying to change the size of a rectangle wall and I'm looking for "length" and "width" buttons in the properties manager box and can't figure it out. I thought I could just key in the new size after establishing an anchor point.
I've tried lengthen and extend. But the object is a closed polyline and what I'm doing is not working. Not having much luck with the key-grips either.
The wall is 47'2" and I want it to be 46' 8".
Eventually after I copy and paste with the clipboard enough times within one drawing, the ability goes away and I can no longer copy and past one item from one drawing to a separate drawing. I need to use the clipboard function because that is the only way of getting an item from one drawing to another.
I have download a clear clipboard function but it doesn't work. Closing CAD and restarting does not reinstate the function.
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Step 4. At the moment it askes the user for a selection, I want it to select "ALL"
;;;Purpose to convert a Civil3D drawing into CLIENT layer standards.
(defun c:client ()
(setq old-echo (getvar "CMDECHO"))
(setvar "cmdecho" 1)
[Code]...
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