Hi All,

What seems to me like another dumb question, sorry:

I cannot get the stretch tool to stretch an object smaller. I can draw a cube and select one corner as the start point, another as the ref point and if I select an arbitrary target point further along the imaginary line then no problem, the cube scales. However if I make my target point back inwards from the reference point, viaCAD does nothing?? no scale? This seems wrong to me. surely it should work both ways?
I don't want to use the non-proportional scale tool as that's not interactive so doesn't do what I need.

Any ideas?
Roger

Thanks JL,

Yes it definitely needs improving. An interactive, non-uniform scaling tool is vital in any cad package. It seems to me to be one of the most basic features that should be incuded!

oh well. Hopefully it will be addressed in an update sooer rather than later.

cheers
Roger

Well my scaling tool doesn't work well at all??

If I want to scale uniformly then fine, no problem, but if I want to scale in one axis only the tool insists on numerical input, instead of letting me set a "anchor-reference-end" set of points with the mouse.

Numerical input on non-uniform scale is next to useless. I have no idea what percentage I will need to scale something? I need to do it with mouse clicks.

Unless I'm doing something wrong or mine is broken?

Thanks Norbert, that's a good idea.

The way I see it, differential scale values can be set just like the scale tool ought to work. i.e. you chose which axis you want to scale along and click for start, ref and finish ponts, job done.

Thanks for your workaround.