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Precisely scale an object when you know before and after dimensions

By Ellen Finkelstein

Ken Monsanto of Bahrain Precast Concrete sent in this tip for scaling an object when you know the current and desired dimensions. For example, let’s say that you have a circle with a diameter of 35 and you want to scale it so that it has a diameter of 50.

He suggested these steps:

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June 20th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: Editing | 7 comments

Let AutoCAD do the math

By Ellen Finkelstein

There are several ways you can let AutoCAD do some quick arithmetic for you when you need a distance. Let’s say you’re drawing a line and you want to use direct distance entry to specify the length. What you know is that that line should be 4.372 plus 3.925. Of course, you could use a […]

August 4th, 2004 | Tags: , , | Category: Text & Dimensions | 2 comments