I have been sent a dwg and I am trying to shrink a group of items collectively.
I cannot find a way to reduce the size of it I have tried scale but I don't want to work out the scale for each group, I tried stretch but its not a single item...
I am trying to reduce the width of the objects from 140mm to 110mm whilst retaining the ratio between all objects.
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One of my designers running 2012 AutoCAD and 2012 CADWorx, can no longer select individual parts of a GROUP by shift selecting the unwanted elements.
I have tried to modify..
Pickadd
Group
PickStyle
PickAuto
PickDrag
but to no success.
Also fiddled with her Options file, still nothing+
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let me know the code to proceed for Programme.
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