Resizing a floor

I have a building with 2 floors and lots of rooms on each floor. I need to make the outside dimensions of each floor match (All four corners overlay). Is there a way to do this in AutoCAD 2008?

Are you going to draw it now, or is it already drawn? If you are going to draw it now, you do a copy-paste of the outside dimensions.

If it is already drawn.. hmm... are they in different DWGs? You can then bring in the correct one as a x-ref into the other one and line up the corners.

If they are in the same DWG, I would use ctrl+shift+C and ctrl+shift+V to get the correct floor as a copied block, place that block on top of the other one, and line up the corners.

There are probably as many ways to do this as there are acad-users :wink:

Are the two drawings done at the same scale?

There are probably as many ways to do this as there are acad-users :wink:

Copy 'n paste, adjust the interior walls as required.

I'm guessing, 2nd floor, not the same as the ground level 1st floor.

They are in 2 different dwg files and not to the same scale, thats why I need to match corners

No not same scale, I need to make them the same, one is longer than the othe and the first is shorter - so "SCALE" doesn't seem to be the answer

I can copy and paste, but its the adjustment that's giving me headaches. I need to stretch it along the X axis and shrink it along the Y axis

ignore the last. eugh....headache I get.

Sounds like you need one of the Scale-along-one-axis-lisps that are floating around - I'll see if I can find you a link.

Bring it in as a block. The X and Y scale factors can be different.

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showpost.php?p=150405&postcount=4 - that's one

there are more lisps out there that does this, but I can't get the Search-function to cooperate with me today