Edit line with grips

[seekn_destroy]

Hello!

It seems there've been a change in some system variable i ACAD2012 that changes the way a line lengthens when you use the grips.

 

I want the length to change relative to the selected grip not determine the total length of the line!

 

Do you guys have a solution to this?

 

I'm guessing that it have something to do with polar tracking, if I turn it of the stretching works the way I want...

[designerstuart]

i don't have 2012 but i think if you go to drafting settings (right click polar button below command line) choose dynamic tab, click settings for dimension input box then you can choose which it is - relative or resulting dimension.

[seekn_destroy]

Thank you, but I don't have dynamic input active! otherwise I switch between relative and absolute with the tab-key.

 

I would like to find something that works without dynamic input active! (or I could start work with dynamic input )

[troggarf]

How about the LENGTHEN command LEN and then use the DYnamic option? (example)

LEN DY then select the end of a line and pull in the direction you want to lengthen (or shorten) and then enter the distance you want to lengthen.

[seekn_destroy]

Thanks for replying!

 

I could use the stretch-command just as well as the lengthen-command, but some of my co-workers love the "grips"

 

I find it strange that the prechosen value for lengthen a line with grips is total length!

[Squirltech]

How about the LENGTHEN command LEN and then use the DYnamic option? (example)

LEN DY then select the end of a line and pull in the direction you want to lengthen (or shorten) and then enter the distance you want to lengthen.

 

This is what I use but just as a note, LENGTHEN does NOT work on a POLYLINE.

[seekn_destroy]

lengthen does work with polylines

[Squirltech]

 

It doesn't work on my PLINEs.

[seekn_destroy]

ok, maybe thats a new feature...

[eldon]

How about the LENGTHEN command LEN and then use the DYnamic option? (example)

 

Your example only shows a LINE being Lengthened by dynamic option. It does NOT show it working with a polyline

[troggarf]

For 2011 & 2012 Polylines:

Select the polyline

Hover over the end-point grip that you want to lengthen

Select "Stretch"

B to specify a base point

Click the end point to specify the old end point

move the cursor in the direction you want lengthened (note: there should be a dotted "extension line that shows you when you are lengthening in the direction of the original line)

enter the distance of what you want added to the endpoint

[troggarf]

Your example only shows a LINE being Lengthened by dynamic option. It does NOT show it working with a polyline

I have made a new post that shows how to lengthen a polyline vertex or endpoint (found here)

~enjoy

[seekn_destroy]

Nice tut troggarf!

I just use object-tracking...

 

back to using the grips! It works sometimes, I notice that the basepoint of the line is the key!

 

if I just click on the line to select it, it always select the opposite grip, but if I select the grip I want to use as basepoint by making a "square-selection" it always select the grip within this square!

 

Hope you understand me

 

It would be great to always make the grip closest to my "click" (selection) as basepoint!