Copying and Resizing Part of a Drawing

Command:

pdms_copy

Menu Selection:

PDMS Draw>Copy Magnify

Initial Prompt:

Select objects:

Use:

Click on the objects you wish to copy/magnify. Press Enter to finish selecting.

Base point or displacement:

Click on the base point, that means, the ‘from’ point for the copy operation. This would usually be on or within one of the selected objects, but it may be displaced. Refer to figure below (point 1).

Second point of displacement:

This is the ‘to’ point of the copy operation. Refer to figure (point 2).

Magnify base point/<None>:

Pressing Enter at this point will give a same-size copy of the selected group of objects.

To produce a resized copy, click on the point that you wish to be the base point for the resize operation. Again, this would usually be on or within one of the selected objects, but it may be displaced. Refer to figure below (resulting magnified object shown dashed).

<Magnification factor>/Reference:

The default input for this prompt is simply a value, for example ‘2’ will give a copy twice as large as the original. (If you wish to produce a copy smaller than the original, input a value less than 1.)

Pressing R (for ‘Reference’) gives two further prompts:

Reference length:

New length:

This option enables the copy to be magnified in an absolute sense rather than a relative sense. It works in exactly the same way as the Reference option of the AutoCAD scale command; see the AutoCAD Reference Manual.

The final prompt of the copy/magnify operation is

Copy to current layer No<Yes>:

The magnified copy will be created on the current layer unless you reply No (press N). Note that any objects put onto PDMS ‘GT_’ layers will be lost when the picture is updated with the latest version of the drawing from Draft.