Scale in one dimension only?

[Rui Maciel]

Is it possible to scale a selection of drawing primitives only in one direction? If it's possible then how is it done?

Thanks in advance,
Rui Maciel

 

[strawberry]

Is it possible to scale a selection of drawing primitives only in one direction? If it's possible then how is it done?

Thanks in advance,
Rui Maciel

Yes. First a make a block from the objects. Then scale them. Then adjust the x or y scale back to 1 as required. Be careful, as errors can occur when exploding non-uniformly scaled blocks!

 

[Rui Maciel]

Yes. First a make a block from the objects. Then scale them. Then adjust the x or y scale back to 1 as required. Be careful, as errors can occur when exploding non-uniformly scaled blocks!

That sounds good. Still, it looks like a bit of a hack. Isn't there a more straight forward way such as a specific command?

Rui Maciel

 

[strawberry]

That sounds good. Still, it looks like a bit of a hack. Isn't there a more straight forward way such as a specific command?

Rui Maciel

If you can think of a better way, I'm all ears.

Good luck.

 

[Bill DeShawn]

If you can think of a better way, I'm all ears.

Good luck.

Your description is correct, but lacks one thing. The mention of the Properties dialog or palette to scale the block in either the X or Y axis.

Bill DeShawn
http://my.sterling.net/~bdeshawn

 

[P.C.]

That sounds good. Still, it looks like a bit of a hack. Isn't there a more straight forward way such as a specific command?

Rui Maciel

There are way's but not more strait forwerts, in fact it ask a bit of knowleage but then you also make sure there will be no foults exploding non uniform blocks, as there are no blocks. You can change the entity database based on calculations of the code 10 and 11 sublists according to the scale factor sublist, it is simple calculations, but you realy has to know a few of the more advanced commands such as mapcar and apply ; done it with design issues where an explode was nessery to calculate the the real not the scaled dimensions xyz, also you need to point out if you ude a plain block, the x y and z values.