At last, real rectangles in AutoCAD

You have been waiting for real rectangles in AutoCAD for years.

The wait is over!

Here is how it works:

Draw a floating viewport in paper space.
Copy/paste it in Model space.

That's it!

You've got a real rectangle, you can change its length and heigth and its
center in the properties window, and you can change its size by grip
editing:

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Le portail francophone CAO et Nouvelles Technologies

 

how do you change the center of a rectangle?

 

Patrick gave us a nice step by step instruction. (Thanks to P.)
Read it.

Juergen

 

In the properties window.

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That's pretty cool, Patrick. Did your discovery begin with a mistake of some
kind? (In the next version, they'll probably call it a new feature.)

After playing with it for a while, I've realized that you can specify
whatever linetype you want, but these things are going to appear
"continuous". Still, thanks for the tip.

 

Using an appropriate plot style you can get any line type (at the
paper).

Juergen

 

Even though it looks continuous on the screen?

 

Yes - try it. In the paperspace on the screen it looks
continuous, in the plot preview and finally on the paper it looks
like defined in the plot style.

Juergen

 

Almost... You know that's the way with all *great* discoveries... by chance!
)
I was testing copy/paste for viewports in Pspace and suddenly I thougth
"What kind of fatal error will I get if I do that in Mspace". Surprise,
none...

It reminds me of another little trick I found in R14 years ago: if you
mirror an arc but specifiy the two same points for the mirror axis, it
works, it does a complementary angle arc! (the bug was later in 2000
corrected by Autodesk, unfortunately)
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Le portail francophone CAO et Nouvelles Technologies

 

I do that a lot: "I wonder what'll happen if I do THIS?!"
I think it's basic scientific curiosity.