Can you scale in one direction in autocad

You can, however, trace over the one-direction scaled block with new lines. AutoCAD Forum. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for.

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Back to Topic Listing Previous Next. Filter by Lables. Failure while chamfering. Message 1 of Scaling an object in just one direction. Hi people! Mail the solved file back to me to bala8vijay gmail. Tags 1. Tags: Scaling. Message 2 of If by some odd chance my nattering was useful -- that's great, glad to help. Message 3 of I tried this with a block and it works great! Thank you for posting that solution! Message 4 of Multiplies the dimensions of the selected objects by the specified scale.

A scale factor greater than 1 enlarges the objects. A scale factor between 0 and 1 shrinks the objects. You can also drag the cursor to make the object larger or smaller. Annotation scaling is a new feature in AutoCAD that lets you place Dimensions, Multileaders, Blocks and hatches in Model space, and have them scale to the right size to suit a Paper space Viewport.

The idea is an annotation scale is used to determine text height or the overall scale of an annotation object. In your layout tab, set Viewports to the appropriate scale to display annotative objects of the same scale. Notice the text sizes are the same but the scale is not.

To scale an object to a smaller size, you simply divide each dimension by the required scale factor. To convert a measurement to a larger measurement, simply multiply the real measurement by the scale factor. Type I and press enter, the Insert window will show up.

In this window, you can assign the scale of the block along X, Y and Z axis separately. If you keep the value of scale factor same along X, Y and Z axis then the overall size of the block will change.

There might be several causes for this: The desired objects are within a viewport on a layout and the viewport is not active. The layer of the objects are locked. The edit mode of an xref is active.