Copy and Scale Simultaneously

Shapeshifter · May 18, 2007

Is it possible to Copy and Scale at the same time? For example, I copy a one
inch circle and it creates a two inch circle, then a three inch circle, four
inch, etc. Or an array that scales each individual item by a certain
percent? The MicroStation Copy command does this with ease, just enter your
scale X and Y. I would like to find a similar command or a lisp for AutoCAD.

Michael Bulatovich · May 18, 2007

Shapeshifter said:

Is it possible to Copy and Scale at the same time? For example, I copy a
one inch circle and it creates a two inch circle, then a three inch
circle, four inch, etc. Or an array that scales each individual item by a
certain percent? The MicroStation Copy command does this with ease, just
enter your scale X and Y. I would like to find a similar command or a lisp
for AutoCAD.
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Not in a native command, but the lisp for this would be pretty simple.

Michael Bulatovich · May 18, 2007

roy said:

maybe I misread, but it seems like it would depend on the type of entity
copied.
if you are copying a block, then scaling X and Y makes sense.
if you are copying circles, there is no scale factor to adjust.

Command: (setq it (entget (car (entsel))))

Select object: ((-1 . <Entity name: 195ca40>) (0 . "CIRCLE") (330 .
<Entity
name: 195a8f8>) (5 . "7218") (100 . "AcDbEntity") (67 . 0) (410 .
"Model") (8 .
"WALLS") (100 . "AcDbCircle") (10 0.0 0.0 0.0) (40 . 43.8287) (210 0.0
0.0 1.0))

the dxf code for a circle, (10 x y z ) is the center point, and I think
(40 . #.#) is the radius.
nothing in there for a scale factor.

if you want to copy a circle and make it bigger, you could play with the
radius, but you would need something else if you picked a line.

alternatively, you might CREATE a block so you could apply scale factors
on each "copy", but would that not just be rewriting the INSERT command?

However, if you restrict yourself to circles, the lisp would be pretty
simple. have more parameters?
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I figured he meant 'scale' as in the command.

Michael Bulatovich · May 19, 2007

Who knows.... How'ya been?

roy said:

very possible you are right on that. but I still don't get different
scale factors.
am I missing something?
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Michael Bulatovich · May 21, 2007

roy said:

been entirely covered up with work, which is a good thing.
just when I start getting past some things that had bugged me for years
with my LISP.
just when I want to rework several things for default values.

they bring me all this work.

annoying, really.
need to raise my rates.

how is life north of the border?
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Winter's over. Residential is kinda slow, but commercial is paying the
bills.

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