At last, real rectangles in AutoCAD

Aug 07, 2004 7 Replies

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:


how do you change the center of a rectangle?

"Longshot" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:Sp8Rc.221707$%_6.215244@attbi_s01...

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

Juergen

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In the properties window.

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.

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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

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