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Perfect! But suppose that the nutty engineer (hey, I resemble that remark!) has decided that the column needs to measure 18 x 18 inches rather than 12 x 18 inches. Therefore, the base plate is too small, and the anchor bolts are in the wrong place. If you were drafting from paper on the drawing board, you’d pull out the eraser right about now to rub out half your effort — and if you were lucky, you’d have an electric eraser. At some point, you simply tore up the paper and started over, or labeled the appropriate dimensions as NTS (Not To Scale). It’s AutoCAD to the rescue.
ssss1 Button-downed base plate.
Now that’s a stretch
The Stretch command is powerful: It can stretch or move objects, or stretch some and move others at the same time, depending on how you select them. The key to using Stretch is specifying a crossing selection box properly. ssss1 gives you more details about crossing selection boxes and how to use them with the Stretch and other editing commands.
