Expert: Bob - 2/7/2008

Question
DEAR BOB,
MY PROBLEM IS THAT I HAVE MANY BLOCKS THAT HAVE TO BE RESCALED W/OUT THE ENTIRE DRAWING BEING RESCALED.  ALL OF THESE BLOCKS ARE IN SPECIFIC PLACES.  I WAS WONDERING IF THERE IS ANY WAY TO SCALE MULTIPLE OBJECTS WITHOUT USING ONE BASE POINT.
THANKS
-IAN

Answer
Ian --

You leave out-----
How they got created wrong -- this is important
.... did you scale up the rest of the drawing, or you just made the blocks too small?  With a self-taught person, I am afraid I have to ask dumb questions such as "is your drawing at  1:1?"
Whether it is 27 of one block or 13 different blocks
-- the AutoCAD release, and so on.

Briefly, you pretty much are going to have to move the blocks after scaling.  If  you scale one block by picking the center, it will grow in all directions, if by picking a corner, it will grow away from the corner.  If you you scale them up by using Quickselect, you still need a reference point.  If you created them without paying attention to where the insert point was, scaling can send them off the screen.
AND SO ON...

But a brief reply to the question above is NO-- if you mean scaling on the screen.  Maybe, if you mean scaling in the properties palette.

BE VERY VERY SPECIFIC PLEASE

BOB