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Topic: how to resize autocad blocks?
Posted By: rosalieblach
Subject: how to resize autocad blocks?
Date Posted: 27.Apr.2014 at 12:26
hi
looking for some help, ive downloaded some autocad blocks from this website, and when i insert them, they are beyond tiny, how do i enlarge it?
thank you
rosalie


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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 27.Apr.2014 at 19:02
SCALE command is one option.



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Posted By: rosalieblach
Date Posted: 28.Apr.2014 at 05:46
thanks alot!

Posted By: philippe JOSEPH
Date Posted: 28.Apr.2014 at 09:36
Hello rosalieblach, if you take a look at the settings in DDUNITS of each of your files ( the one in wich you want to insert and the ones that you want to insert ) there shouldn't be any problems provide that you use the command INSERT and not copy/paste.
Set your drawing in your unit : inches, feet , millimeters , meters etc...
Check the REAL unit of the files that you insert ( some of the files here in the site are drawn in one unit and declared in an other, do a test on one dimension for a check ), eventually do the correction before insertion and AutoCAD will insert it at the right scale.
If not OK, select the block and modify the scale for example with the properties palette ( CTRL+1 ).
With the command ALIGN you can modify the alignment of an object in 2D or 3D and scale it automaticly ( last option of the command ).

Posted By: teslaoutsourcing
Date Posted: 29.Apr.2014 at 14:52

Open your block in AutoCAD. Press ‘Ctrl+1’ and open Properties palette. Increase the Value of Scale X, Scale Y and Scale Z fields. Block length will be increased by increasing the value of Scale X, block width will be increased by increasing the value of Scale Y and elevation height will be increased by increasing the value of Scale Z. You can resize your each block in this manner. 

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 29.Apr.2014 at 16:12
Resizing a block by the individual X, Y and Z parameters is not the most efficient method.  Best to follow philippe's suggestion.


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Posted By: philippe JOSEPH
Date Posted: 30.Apr.2014 at 07:38
Hello everybody, on the other hand teslaoutsourcing method can be used in some cases.
If you make a block ( with or without the selected option of exploding it or not ) you can make desired distortions of it.
The option of not exploding it will keep it safe.
The option of exploding it will allow you exploding ( or ncopy some parts of it ) and get distortioned elements.
A block made of a circle that you give different X and Y values will be tranformed into an ellipse if you explode it or not.

Posted By: anubhav1237
Date Posted: 30.Apr.2014 at 07:59
converting them to dynamic blocks and assigning parameters can also help!

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 30.Apr.2014 at 11:36
First.  There was no mention of scaling the blocks in a non-uniform manner.

Second.  It would be a waste of time converting them to dynamic blocks.  It's merely a matter of the wrong insertion scale.  Solve that problem and everything else is moot.


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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

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Posted By: Khadija_Watts
Date Posted: 05.May.2014 at 04:53
Use the SCALE command line


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