ProgrammingAutoCADHow to Use the ARRAYPATH Command in AutoCAD 2014 How to Use the ARRAYPATH Command in AutoCAD 2014 Unlike rectangular and polar arrays , which require only source objects and some input parameters, path arrays in AutoCAD require an additional piece of drawing geometry — a path. A path can be as simple as a line or a circle, or it can be a spline or a 2D or 3D polyline. Other than that, path arrays behave very much like rectangular and polar arrays. The following steps show you how to use the ARRAYPATH command to bring chairs to an elliptical dining room table and use the table itself as the path. Open a drawing containing some objects you want to array along a path (or draw some simple geometry for your source object) and then also draw a line or an open or a closed spline or polyline for your path. Click Path Array from the Array drop-down button on the Modify panel of the Home tab. At the Select Objects prompt, select one or more objects that you want to array along a path.
You can select any and all AutoCAD object types, including block insertions and text. Object arraying is done based on the position of the objects relative to the starting end of the path object. If you want the arrayed objects to land on the path, they must be on the path before you select them. When you finish selecting objects, AutoCAD prompts: Select the object you want to serve as the path. Valid object types include straight lines, open or closed polylines and splines, arcs, circles, and ellipses, as well as helixes and 3D polylines. You don’t have to press Enter after you select the path. AutoCAD immediately responds with a lengthy, multi-option prompt, displays a dynamic preview, and displays the path version of the Array Creation contextual Ribbon tab. Enter the specifications for your array. As with rectangular and polar arrays, you can specify the number of items, the distance between them, and/or the length of a portion of the path to fill.
A bit of experimentation will show that these options are often interrelated; changing one forces another one to change. You can also specify whether the arrayed objects stay horizontal or rotate to stay parallel to the path. Again, just like the other array types, you can jump back and forth between grip-editing, Ribbon entries, the command line options, and Dynamic Input tooltip. Finish building your array. If you don’t have a grip selected, the default mode is eXit. Simply press Enter or the spacebar, or click the Close Array button on the Ribbon, and you’re done! Put the path object on a separate layer. After you complete the array, freeze that layer, and the path object becomes invisible. and will be automatically redirected to your desired search results page on BIMobject. As of the 18th of January 2017 Autodesk has transferred the operation of its Autodesk® Seek business to BIMobject® Autodesk Seek operations transferred to BIMobjectGetting your stuff on Draftsperson.net is easy!
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Join Cadalyst contributing editor and Autodesk Evangelist Lynn Allen as she explains how AutoCAD can figure out the perfect scale factor to get your objects to the desired size. Stop doing the math yourself and let AutoCAD do the work for you!Hello there, this is Lynn Allen. Welcome to another AutoCAD tip, courtesy of Cadalyst magazine. Coming to you from sunny Northern California. Thank you so much for joining me. He does a great job on his blog.This has to do with the Scale command, which we use all the time. Most of us go into the Scale command, and we give a scale factor, and we're done. But if you've ever been in a situation where you knew that you had a specific distance of length or width, whatever the situation is, that you wanted your objects to meet. But you couldn't figure out the scale factor was to get it there. You don't want to do the math. Then you are going to love the Reference option in the Scale command. Let me show you what I'm talking about.On the screen, I have a table.
It's a block that I borrowed from somebody. It's not the right size. I need the length of that table to be 5 ft. It's not quite right. So I don't want to figure out what I need to scale it by, because as we've pointed out before, I'm a lazy AutoCAD operator. I want the computer to do the job for me. That's why I'm using it, right? Computers are great at math. I want it to be 5 ft. in length.So I'm going to go into the Scale command, don't type it in, be better than me. I'm going to pick my block. Pick the basepoint, just like we are used to. I'm going to use the Reference option. I want the distance from this end of the table to this end of the table; it tells me it's 2' 8 13/16" -- of course it is. I want that to be 5 ft. So I want to give the new length. I want it to be 5 ft. in length. Look at that, easy enough. I let the computer do the work for me. That makes me very happy. That's one way of using the Reference option.Maybe you want an object or multiple objects on the screen to be a length of another object on the screen.