SCALE — Scale

Enlarges or reduces objects from a base point.

Command: SCALE · Global name: _SCALE · Alias: SC
Ribbon: Home › Modify
Menu: Modify
Toolbar: Modify

Enlarges or reduces the selected objects from a base point, the only point that does not move.

Usage

Enter SCALE (or SC) or click Scale on the ribbon.
Select the objects and press Enter. If they were already selected before starting the command, they are used without asking.

Select objects:

Specify the base point.

Specify base point:

Specify the scale factor: typed (greater than 0; 2 doubles, 0.5 halves) or with a click, and then the factor is the distance from the base point to the point.

Specify scale factor or [Copy/Reference]:

With Copy a copy is scaled and the original stays; with Reference you give the reference length and the new one (Specify reference length <1.0000>:), and the factor is new / reference.

Notes

The factor is the same in X and Y: circles stay circles and blocks change their scale.
With no command running you can scale with grips: select the objects, click a grip (it becomes the base point) and press Space until the scale mode.

Specify scale factor or [Base point/Copy/eXit]:

Scaling a table enlarges its rows and columns, but the height of its texts comes from its style and does not change.
The Copy and Reference options are the AutoCAD ones; in Reference, Points gives the new length with two points.

SCALE — Scale

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