topic Re: Multiple stretching of elements in Modeling

Multiple stretching of elements

Anonymous — Fri, 25 May 2007 02:00:49 GMT

Is there any way to select multiple walls, lines, etc and stretch them at the same time rather than having to stretch each element individually?

Re: Multiple stretching of elements

Barry Kelly — Fri, 25 May 2007 02:04:40 GMT

Olivia wrote:
Is there any way to select multiple walls, lines, etc and stretch them at the same time rather than having to stretch each element individually?

Use a marquee around the area you want to stretch.
Be careful in plan as the thin marquee will only stretch what you see on on the current storey.
The thick marquee will stretch all storeys.
Barry.

Re: Multiple stretching of elements

Anonymous — Fri, 25 May 2007 02:40:44 GMT

You can also select the elements, make the relevant tool active, and CTRL-click on a reference line to extend / trim as relevant

Re: Multiple stretching of elements

Lingwisyer — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 04:44:48 GMT

Barry wrote:
Use a marquee around the area you want to stretch.

How does that work? Or are we just talking about 3D stretching?

Ling.

Re: Multiple stretching of elements

Barry Kelly — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 05:15:34 GMT

Lingwisyer wrote:

Barry wrote:
Use a marquee around the area you want to stretch.
How does that work? Or are we just talking about 3D stretching?

Ling.

Plan or 3D.
Any node inside the marquee will move, stretching from the nodes outside of the marquee.

Barry.

Re: Multiple stretching of elements

Lingwisyer — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 07:47:43 GMT

Does not work for me in plan. Is there some toggle?

Ling.

Re: Multiple stretching of elements

Barry Kelly — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 07:55:55 GMT

Lingwisyer wrote:
Does not work for me in plan. Is there some toggle?

Ling.

Not that I am aware of.
Place the marquee and then either activate stretch (CTRL+H) and drag from any position on screen to any other position (can be inside or outside of the marquee).
Or place the marquee and drag from a particular node inside the marquee (i.e. the blue circle in my image) to the position you want.
Dragging one of the nodes means you don't have to activate the stretch command.

Barry.

Re: Multiple stretching of elements

Lingwisyer — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 08:43:10 GMT

Well, something is broken for me... Stretching the red beam/wall, only Beam 2 will sometimes move, and when it does, it stretches to the same spot no matter the direction or distance of the other stretch...

Ling.

Re: Multiple stretching of elements

Barry Kelly — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 08:48:08 GMT

Make sure nothing is selected and that the marquee tool is active.

Barry.

Re: Multiple stretching of elements

Lingwisyer — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 09:34:32 GMT

Ah. So without anything selected, you move the marquee and everything within it is moved or stretched depending on the shortcut used. That works. So you cannot define the elements which you want to stretch?

Ling.

Re: Multiple stretching of elements

Barry Kelly — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:10:37 GMT

It doesn’t have to be a rectangular marquee.
You can use the polygon method and weave around the points you want to stretch.

Barry.