Chartered Architect
One of my colleagues today asked, can you scale in only one axis or by differing in the X and Y axes? The answer is no if you use the SCALE command. However there is a workaround.
If you place the objects in you require to scale non-uniformly into a block the block can be scaled in the properties pallette.
Once scaled, explode the block and voila you have scaled your group of objects by only one axis.
Lynne Allen has found a nifty little feature lurking within the COPY command, it allows a quick array to be created!
With AutoCAD 2015 around the corner, I thought I would review the best new features of AutoCAD 2014. However Cadalyst has done it already!
Today I encountered a strange AutoCAD issue. At first it seemed to be the old pickfirst issue where if the variable is off you have to run the command then select, rather than the default behavior where you select and go.
The issue encountered today was similar but only seemed to happen on CTRL+C and mtext (MTEDIT). Otherwise all commands worked with select then run command.
After a bit of searching this error appears to be an issue with QAFLAGS. QAFLAGS is an undocumented system variable that appears to have no obvious use. It is problem an internal AutoDesk variable for testing. Though its strange behaviors can be used to assist in writing LISP and scripts!
QAFLAGS can be set to 1 or 2 apparently but the default should be 0. If it is not on 0 the strange semi-PICKFIRST=0 behavior will occur!