Stretch rectangle to exact size

[tenbob]

Hi. I've been playing with the STRETCH command, but I can't get it to do what I want. Can anyone help?

I have a rectangle that is the correct width (X) but the wrong height (Y). How can I stretch it so the height is exactly 200? I think I know all the features of the stretch command. I can select the right nodes using a crossing polygon and stretch it an arbitrary amount with the cursor. I can also add an exact displacement to the size it was before.

The trouble is that all changes are based on the existing size. And it wasn't an exact size in the first place.

So how can I set the height to exactly 200? The SCALE command is no good as it scales X and Y the same amount.

The obvious work-around is to draw another rectangle the correct size on top of the old one. But that's an admission of failure. Am I missing something, or is there really no way to stretch something to an exact size?

[MSasu]

I will draw a vertical line of 200 units starting from bottom-left corner of to-be-fixed rectangle; use later the top-left corner of rectangle and top end of line as from, respectively to points for STRETCH command.
This way will get a displacement equal with diffrence between line's length and height of rectangle.

[Dadgad]

Mircea is right, there is no way to STRETCH (with that command) something to a target dimension from an indefinite size using direct data entry. Best to create a reference as suggested, assuming that you reject creating a brand new rectangle with direct data entry. It might not be an admission of failure to redraw it, it might be better characterized as a lucid moment. Wherever you go, there you are. How many times have I wasted stupid amounts of time trying to fix something which I could more quickly have redrawn? If you have dynamic input turned on you could draw it pretty darned fast.

[Strix]

Is it possible to 'fix' a rectangle by editing its properties?

[MSasu]

Once drawn, is recognized as an ordinary polyline – you can edit the Y coordinate of top points. This may be a reliable method in some cases, for sure.

[mdbdesign]

I don't know if you using LT (Autocad LT not???) or full version.
Try this small utilities (full version only) by kojacek.

[Dadgad]

I should think that doing something as efficiently as possible would by definition trump an ill-conceived preconception of a clever way to do it, resulting in roundabout ways to further decrease one's efficiency, no? If it is not what you want, then fix it in the easiest way possible.

[Strix]

Agreed - I'd redraw the thing (with input values), but I was exploring the functionality of AutoCAD

Is it possible to assoc dimension it, then edit the dims?

[sevdo2000]

You can use "from", from the right click submenu, holding down shift.
Select base point of stretch, then click rigth mouse button with holding down shift and select "from", select opposite sight of rectagle, use tracking to select direction, then type size and hit "enter".

[Dadgad]

Agreed - I'd redraw the thing (with input values), but I was exploring the functionality of AutoCAD

Is it possible to assoc dimension it, then edit the dims?

A commendable aspiration, and an interesting albeit convoluted bit of conjecture for such a mundane and momentary task. I wouldn't know, don't do ASSOCIATIVE, maybe?