stretching a symbol?

[A2M]

Hi again,

 

Let say you designed a bench symbol of 2 meters. On another place of the building, this bench has to be longer. Is it possible to stretch it without using the homothety tool (and of course, without creating a new symbol...)?

The homothety tool enlarges also the legs of the bench, what I don't want. I want only the sitting part to be enlarged.

 

Thanks!

Edited March 13, 2020 by A2M

[Boh]

I don’t think you can do that with a sngle symbol. Sounds like a job for a custom plugin or marionette..

 

I cant do eithe of those so my workaround would be to use a group width just the legs as symbols. Stretching the group won’t distort the leg symbols tho the distance of the legs to the end of the bench will stretch in proportion to the overal stretch of the bench. 

[Mitchell (the other one)]

I do something similar fairly often.  I usually duplicate the symbol so the original can remain in place and the duplicate can be adjusted,  If you didn't want two symbols for some reason, then place a second symbol and convert to group.  Then edit the symbol or group using the reshape tool to move the legs but "stretch" the seating portion.

[Boh]

If the symbol was set to convert to group on insertion then one symbol could do it they would just need an edit after insertion to adjust length

[A2M]

Thanks for your answers. That's what I thought, there is no easy way.

On 3/13/2020 at 7:40 PM, Mitchell (the other one) said:

I usually duplicate the symbol

I already have a lot of symbols since I have my own symbols for windows and doors, that's why I'm trying to minimize the total number!

 

 

[bcd]

You could have one Symbol for the bench and another for the 2 legs.

Then scaling the bench and place 2 legs at each end.