Scale by distance

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on April 5, 2011 at 5:44am

In this work around [Link] for the Offset component I use a distance input to create the factor for the scale Component. You need a distance to measure against to calculate the factor. But this is being applied to a curve that doesn't have any thickness, so bear in mind the fact that a scale over a distance is still a scale and therefore increasing in size.

Permalink Reply by Nicole Ashurian on December 13, 2016 at 4:17am

^ I'm doing transformations to a series of lines all manipulated to extend in different directions on the xy plane. I'd like to scale 1d some of them to be an additional 6cm longer. How do I set up the script to create a plane of reference for each to extend from?

Do you guys suggest an other ways of trying to achieve this?  

Permalink Reply by Manuel on December 15, 2016 at 1:04pm

if you are scaling some lines, then you can use extend curve component by 6 cm and 0 cm on each end.

if you are scaling some geometry, you need a reference line or distance from the geometry and use division between new valor and original... here a quick example (I scale the same line, but you can scale whatever you want). In both examples i use the starting end point as base for scale.

Permalink Reply by Noel Narciso on December 29, 2019 at 8:21am

Thank you!