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Uniform scaling of an entity using grips.

If you are missing the grip edit functionality known e.g. from Corel or Adobe products - where you can scale e.g. a rectangle by dragging its corner, you can use AutoCAD "grip edit" in a little bit more complicated but similar way.

Click on an entity to make its grips visible
Click again on one of the grips to make it "hot" (red) - choose the grip you want to make anchor point (basepoint)
Press spacebar 3 times to switch to SCALE
Define the scale factor by dragging (or - alternatively - use the _REF option to define a reference length {e.g. the basepoint and the opposite corner} and then drag the object to scale

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9.7.2003 5191×

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applies to: AutoCAD · AutoCAD LT · AutoCAD Architecture · AutoCAD Map ·

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