suzannah Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 Hi all, Is there any way to divide a line or rectangle into equal parts automatically, that is without doing the math. And ideally if the initial line or rectangle is resized the equal parts would also resize. I am only thinking of this as a 2D operation. Thanks in advance SR Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Robert Anderson Posted December 15, 2004 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted December 15, 2004 VectorWorks has a "snap to distance" option in the Constraints palette. Say you have a line to which you want snap to 1/7 parts. Enable the "snap to distance" snap to 1/7 and you will get a snap at each seventh of the line. Sort of the same as subdividing the line without having to.. Quote Link to comment
EvB Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 A pretty flexible way to divide just about anything is to offset a line a bunch of times (determined by the number of divisions desired +1) and then group them. This group can be stretched to the object to be divided and the intermediate segments are snappable reference points. [ 12-15-2004, 05:04 PM: Message edited by: EvB ] Quote Link to comment
suzannah Posted December 15, 2004 Author Share Posted December 15, 2004 Thanks EvB!! That was the elegant solution I was looking for. SR Quote Link to comment
CEA Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 You can also use the "LINE INTO SEGMENTS" command to divide a line into any number of equal parts. Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 One more technique, not so much for dividing, but related: In the Object Info, go to the dimension you want to change and type the calculation, eg. if the current width of a rectangle is 3600 and you want 1/7 of it, type /7 behind the 3600 and press enter. For creating duplicates at odd distances (like that 514.28571428571 (3600/7), not to mention odd x/y displacement combinations, there are free 'duplicate by vector' utilities at VectorDepot. You can use the four basic arithmetic operators (+ - * /) in all dialogs, too, like layer scale, object scaling and so on. [ 12-16-2004, 07:26 AM: Message edited by: Petri ] Quote Link to comment
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