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circles in any way. Only crossing or polygonal windows can be used to
determine the part of a drawing which is to be stretched.
1. Construct the drawing labelled Original in Fig. 5.34, but do not include
the dimensions. Use the Circle , Arc , Trim and Polyline Edit tools.
The resulting outlines are plines of width 1. With the Copy tool
make two copies of the drawing.
N o t e
In each of the three examples in Fig. 5.34, the broken lines represent the
crossing windows required when Stretch is used.
2. Call the Stretch tool - either click on its tool icon in the Home/Modify
panel ( Fig. 5.33 ), pick its name in the Modify drop-down menu or enter
s or stretch at the command line, which shows.
Fig. 5.33
The Stretch tool icon from the Home/Modify panel
Command:_stretch
Select objects to stretch by crossing-window
or crossing-polygon...
Select objects:enter c right-click
Specify fi rst corner: pick Specify opposite
corner: pick 1 found
Select objects: right-click
Specify base point or [Displacement]
<Displacement>: pick beginning of arrow
Specify second point of displacement or <use fi rst
point as displacement>: drag in the direction
of the arrow to the required second point and
right-click
Command:
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