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Distort existing objects [rctangle to parallelogram]
Noob Alert!
No mechanical drawing experience either. I've spent more than an hour in help manual trying to learn how to distort an existing shape into another shape. Something along the line of turning a rectangle into a parallelogram. None of the handles on a rectangle appear to have that kind of fucntion. Searches in help file on `distort object', `edit object' ,`change object' and even directly on `parallelogram' have not helped. I'm laying out cement forms for a project and am attempting to draw the footings to scale in an isometric view, hence the need to turn rectangles (a footing) into a parallelogram (an isometric footing). And then flesh out the other dimension. |
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Distort existing objects [rctangle to parallelogram]
Andy writes:
Not sure about a parallelogram, but if you select your rectangle and keep the pointer over the shape the selection will change giving you additional handles. You can move the corners as you require. I'm not seeing the `change' you mention, that gives handles capable of moving corners. When I select the rectangle I get 8 square handles spaced around the rectangle. All of them say `resize shape' when I hover over them. When dragged the size of the rectangle changes... nothing else. There is a diamond in the center, when hovered it says `center of rotation'. A circle hangle just above the rectangle that says `rotation', then there are 4 faint blue arrow heads. Just outside of each side. These light up when you hoover and display a cranked line with arrow head, and says: `Drop and connect rectangle shape'. What am I missing here? |
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Distort existing objects [rctangle to parallelogram]
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:09:15 -0600, wrote:
Andy writes: Not sure about a parallelogram, but if you select your rectangle and keep the pointer over the shape the selection will change giving you additional handles. You can move the corners as you require. I'm not seeing the `change' you mention, that gives handles capable of moving corners. When I select the rectangle I get 8 square handles spaced around the rectangle. All of them say `resize shape' when I hover over them. When dragged the size of the rectangle changes... nothing else. There is a diamond in the center, when hovered it says `center of rotation'. A circle hangle just above the rectangle that says `rotation', then there are 4 faint blue arrow heads. Just outside of each side. These light up when you hoover and display a cranked line with arrow head, and says: `Drop and connect rectangle shape'. What am I missing here? After you have selected the shape you need to wait for a couple of seconds. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. http://www.pherber.com/ http://www.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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Distort existing objects [rctangle to parallelogram]
Paul Herber writes:
There is a diamond in the center, when hovered it says `center of rotation'. A circle hangle just above the rectangle that says `rotation', then there are 4 faint blue arrow heads. Just outside of each side. These light up when you hoover and display a cranked line with arrow head, and says: `Drop and connect rectangle shape'. What am I missing here? After you have selected the shape you need to wait for a couple of seconds. After 15 seconds I see nothing more than is described above. This is the demo version... is this aspect diabled? |
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Distort existing objects [rctangle to parallelogram]
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:13:55 -0600, wrote:
Paul Herber writes: There is a diamond in the center, when hovered it says `center of rotation'. A circle hangle just above the rectangle that says `rotation', then there are 4 faint blue arrow heads. Just outside of each side. These light up when you hoover and display a cranked line with arrow head, and says: `Drop and connect rectangle shape'. What am I missing here? After you have selected the shape you need to wait for a couple of seconds. After 15 seconds I see nothing more than is described above. This is the demo version... is this aspect diabled? Create a new rectangle with the drawing tool. With nothing selected, select this rectangle and leave the mouse hovering over the shape. Initially there will be green handles in the corners and in the middle of the shape's vertices. After 1/2 second these green handles will move outwards a small amount and show new smaller handles at the corners and vertices. By moving these handles you can modify the shape into other similar shapes, e.g. parallelogram/trapezium. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. http://www.pherber.com/ http://www.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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Distort existing objects [rctangle to parallelogram]
neat !
al "Paul Herber" wrote in message ell.net... On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:13:55 -0600, wrote: Paul Herber writes: There is a diamond in the center, when hovered it says `center of rotation'. A circle hangle just above the rectangle that says `rotation', then there are 4 faint blue arrow heads. Just outside of each side. These light up when you hoover and display a cranked line with arrow head, and says: `Drop and connect rectangle shape'. What am I missing here? After you have selected the shape you need to wait for a couple of seconds. After 15 seconds I see nothing more than is described above. This is the demo version... is this aspect diabled? Create a new rectangle with the drawing tool. With nothing selected, select this rectangle and leave the mouse hovering over the shape. Initially there will be green handles in the corners and in the middle of the shape's vertices. After 1/2 second these green handles will move outwards a small amount and show new smaller handles at the corners and vertices. By moving these handles you can modify the shape into other similar shapes, e.g. parallelogram/trapezium. -- Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. http://www.pherber.com/ http://www.sandrila.co.uk/ |
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Distort existing objects [rctangle to parallelogram]
"Al Edlund" writes:
neat ! al "Paul Herber" wrote in message ell.net... On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:13:55 -0600, wrote: Paul Herber writes: There is a diamond in the center, when hovered it says `center of rotation'. A circle hangle just above the rectangle that says `rotation', then there are 4 faint blue arrow heads. Just outside of each side. These light up when you hoover and display a cranked line with arrow head, and says: `Drop and connect rectangle shape'. What am I missing here? After you have selected the shape you need to wait for a couple of seconds. After 15 seconds I see nothing more than is described above. This is the demo version... is this aspect diabled? Create a new rectangle with the drawing tool. With nothing selected, select this rectangle and leave the mouse hovering over the shape. Initially there will be green handles in the corners and in the middle of the shape's vertices. After 1/2 second these green handles will move outwards a small amount and show new smaller handles at the corners and vertices. By moving these handles you can modify the shape into other similar shapes, e.g. parallelogram/trapezium. Unless I'm selecting this wrong somehow the `other' handles never appear. My steps: 1) create rectangle from rectangle on drawing toolbox. the rectangle is then selected automatically. I see 8 square handles. Holding the mouse over the shape... nothing happens... ever. To test selection I click somewhere else in screen then come back and click my rectangle. Again I see 8 green squares holding the mouse over the shape... nothing more happens. In all cases the mouse has what looks like a cross hair with arrow heads attached to it. Is there some other step involved in selection? |
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Distort existing objects [rctangle to parallelogram]
You need to keep the mouse positioned over the lines of the rectangle.
On 30 Jan, 01:53, wrote: "Al Edlund" writes: neat ! al "Paul Herber" wrote in message well.net... On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:13:55 -0600, wrote: Paul Herber writes: There is a diamond in the center, when hovered it says `center of rotation'. A circle hangle just above the rectangle that says `rotation', then there are 4 faint blue arrow heads. Just outside of each side. These light up when you hoover and display a cranked line with arrow head, and says: `Drop and connect rectangle shape'. What am I missing here? After you have selected the shape you need to wait for a couple of seconds. After 15 seconds I see nothing more than is described above. This is the demo version... is this aspect diabled? Create a new rectangle with the drawing tool. With nothing selected, select this rectangle and leave the mouse hovering over the shape. Initially there will be green handles in the corners and in the middle of the shape's vertices. After 1/2 second these green handles will move outwards a small amount and show new smaller handles at the corners and vertices. By moving these handles you can modify the shape into other similar shapes, e.g. parallelogram/trapezium.Unless I'm selecting this wrong somehow the `other' handles never appear. My steps: 1) create rectangle from rectangle on drawing toolbox. the rectangle is then selected automatically. I see 8 square handles. Holding the mouse over the shape... nothing happens... ever. To test selection I click somewhere else in screen then come back and click my rectangle. Again I see 8 green squares holding the mouse over the shape... nothing more happens. In all cases the mouse has what looks like a cross hair with arrow heads attached to it. Is there some other step involved in selection? |
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Distort existing objects [rctangle to parallelogram]
"Andy" writes:
My steps: 1) create rectangle from rectangle on drawing toolbox. the rectangle is then selected automatically. I see 8 square handles. Holding the mouse over the shape... nothing happens... ever. To test selection I click somewhere else in screen then come back and click my rectangle. Again I see 8 green squares holding the mouse over the shape... nothing more happens. In all cases the mouse has what looks like a cross hair with arrow heads attached to it. Is there some other step involved in selection? Andy Wrote: You need to keep the mouse positioned over the lines of the rectangle. That doesn't help here. This is beginning to seem a bit mysterious. Any ideas why I do not get the secondary smaller handles? Is the proecess more complex than the steps I posted? Is seeing the cross-hair with arrow heads normal? |
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