Scaling

[dimekus]

I want to resize multiple polygons at one time (reduce in size) and at the same time increasing the distance between them. I cannot use offset for each object as i have a lot of polygons and some of them are of an irregular shape, which will present difficulty when offsetting. Moreover this has to be one by one. I cannot use scale as this will increase or decrease this space between the polygons also.Any suggestions please?

[fuccaro]

Dimekus
Is it your AutoCAD full, or it is a LT version? If it is a full one, how about a Lisp routine? (Old members, please stop smiling!).
But what base point should it be used? The first point of the polygon? Or maybe the centroid? I think you do not want to pick the base point for each one.

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[Yahia Madieh]

You can use the Autocad command multiple. If you have 4 polygons, as an example, triangle, square, pentagon and trapezoid.

Command: multiple (enter)
Enter command name to repeat: scale (enter)
Select objects: Specify opposite corner: 1 found (pick on triangle)
Select objects: (enter)
Specify base point: pick on corner of triangle
Specify scale factor or [Reference]: 0.75 (enter)
SCALE
Select objects: Specify opposite corner: 1 found (pick on square)
Select objects: (enter)
Specify base point: pick on corner of square
Specify scale factor or [Reference]: 0.65(enter)
SCALE
Select objects: Specify opposite corner: 1 found (pick on pentagon)
Select objects: (enter)
Specify base point: pick on corner of pentagon
Specify scale factor or [Reference]: 1.2
SCALE
Select objects: Specify opposite corner: 1 found (pick on trapezoid)
Select objects: (enter)
Specify base point: pick on corner of trapezoid
Specify scale factor or [Reference]: 18.9
*Cancel*

Now, repeat the multiple command with move for all polygons.
Good luck