AutoCAD - Use A Different Scale For X, Y & Z

The following simple workflow will help us achieve that goal:

• Select the entities that you want to scale and type BLOCK in the command line to convert them into a block.
• Give it a name and select all the relevant options, making sure that Scale uniformly remains un-ticked.

• Press Ctrl + 1 if the AutoCAD PROPERTIES palette is not showing, and select the newly created block.
• In the Geometry section of the block properties, change the fields Scale X, Scale Y and Scale Z to the values you require:

The block will automatically update to the scale factors that have been selected. If you don’t want it to stay as a block, you can just select it and type X in the command line. That will explode the block and the original entities will come back to the drawing, now scaled with the factors previously selected.

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A qualified CEng MSpICE Civil Engineer with over 7+ years post graduate experience. Enrique graduated with a Master's in Civil Engineering, which covered a wide variety of subjects in the fields of transport, structural analysis, geotechnical design, coastal, water and environmental engineering. Enrique joined in 2015 and is an Autodesk Certified Professional in AutoCAD Civil 3D, subsequently helped many clients resolve their Civil 3D problems. He provides training in Civil 3D, AutoCAD and SketchUp.