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Stretching Entities

Use the Stretch command to change the position of an entity's nodes, while retaining their relation to other nodes in the entity. Stretching enlarges or reduces entities in only one direction, unlike scaling. Use stretching also to move single entities inside of a contour.

During stretching, the selection method determines whether entities move or stretch.

  • All entities that lie completely in the selecting window move.
  • All entities intersecting the selection window or polygon stretch or shrink by modifying the end points within a crossing window or polygon, leaving the other end points in their original location.
  • All other drawing entities retain their positions and shapes.

You can stretch Lines, PolyLine segments, Rays, Arcs, elliptical Arcs, and Splines.

To stretch entities:

  1. Click Modify > Stretch (or type Stretch).
  2. In the graphics area, select entities to stretch.

    Use a crossing window or polygon to enclose the nodes to stretch. After you select entities using this method, you can specify the Remove option to erase entities from the selection set. After erasing entities, press Enter.

  3. Press Enter.
  4. Specify a from point and destination point to define the distance to stretch the entities.

    The entities stretch as specified.

To stretch entities using displacement:

  1. Click Modify > Stretch (or type Stretch).
  2. In the graphics area, select entities to stretch.

    Use a crossing window or polygon to enclose the nodes to stretch. After you select entities using this method, you can specify the Remove option to erase entities from the selection set. After erasing entities, press Enter.

  3. Press Enter.
  4. Specify the Displacement option to stretch specified entities by a vector. Provide the relative location of the stretched entities by specifying the X, Y, and Z displacements. If stretching is to be done in the X and Y directions only, do not specify a Z delta.

    - or -

    Specify a from point, then press Enter to Use from point as displacement.

    The entities stretch as specified.

To stretch a single entity using EntityGrips:

  1. In the graphics area, select entities to stretch.
  2. Click one of the EntityGrips.
  3. Move the pointer to another location and click.

To stretch multiple entities using EntityGrips:

  1. In the graphics area, select entities to stretch.
  2. Hold down Shift and click several EntityGrips.
  3. Release Shift and click one EntityGrip as the base grip.
  4. Move the pointer to another location and click.

Access

Command: Stretch

Menu: Modify > Stretch

Tool Palettes: Modify > Stretch



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