SCALING MULTIPLE OBJECTS

[cveg05]

HI,
I have a situtation where I need to scale up several (50-100) objects but need to keep each of the objects the same distance apart as before so i can't use a fence or group the objects because this will scale the distances between relatively. Also, each object is different so I can't just create a cell and copy it without reentering the data in each object individually. I'm basically changing the scale of a plan sheet so I need everthing to line up as before but bigger. This time I went ahead and scaled up each object individually but I'm curious about other methods so I can save time next time.
Thanks

 

[namdac]

cveg05,
Scaling can be performed by referencing or you can scale the objects. All objects should be drawn at 1-1 and referenced to a sheet file. Since you are going from 50 to 100 you would not have to scale the objects. Generally we only re-scale objects if we are changing the scale from say 100-20 scale or 20-100 scale, then we would need to re-scale the objects. Otherwise if I remember there is a mdl that does a global scale from the cells origin. Check and see if there is one at askinga.com and see if there is one there.
Regards,
Namdac

 

[cveg05]

namdac,
Thanks for referring me to that website. It was my first time on there and I did find the mdl that you were referring too which worked well. Thanks again.
Also I didn't explain my situation very well. What I had was, in the base drawing(1:1) several cells(labels) which were placed at a ledgible scale in that drawing for performing design calc's. I needed to print a sheet at a larger scale (1:100) which meant all the labels were way too small to read so I had to scale each one up so that their height and width were ~8-10% of my final scale. This utility I downloaded seems to work perfectly though so thanks again.