[BrassBuilder]

I need some help for a drawing for a radiator fin for a model truck radiator. This drawing will be the artwork for a photoetch operation.

I want to evenly space (.0995 on centers) 46 .021 x .300 rectangles along a line. The way I did it last time, I drew a line across the center of my part, added an incremental point along the line, and then added the rectangles to each point. I had to then go back and delete all the unneeded lines and points and repeated that 3 times. Once I got four of them drawn out, I copied the whole shebang and ended up with eight.

I know there HAS to be an easier and faster way. I dug around in my training videos but I'm not quite finding what I need. I figure I should be able to:

1. Evenly space the smaller rectangles along the length of the larger rectangle.

2. Draw one complete fin out.

3. Copy the fin for the other seven for the artwork.

I think my attached drawing will explain it quite clearly what I am doing. The forum wouldn't let me upload a bbcd file, so I renamed it to txt.

BTW...I'm redoing this because I somehow lost my last drawing.

Thanks for any help that will save me time on this.

Mike

[BrassBuilder]

I got the copy part figured out after going back and playing with it some more. Took a little fiddling...but pretty easy now that I know how.

Would still like to figure out an easier way to get all those rectangles positioned incrementally. I need to do a couple of more drawings that knowing how to do that would be great.

Mike

[Trotline]

Draw one rectangle, then use [Translate]<Delta>, with the <Copy> box checked, the Qty at 46, and the X (or Y) distance set to 0.995 to get the line of rectangles. Select the whole line and use the same technique to copy/space as many lines as needed.

The file wouldn't open for me. I think my machine tagged it with text-file properties, and renaming it left it corrupted. Much better to zip it using <Send To> / Compressed (zipped) Folder and post the resulting archive.

Luke

[JEST]

file uploaded is Bob file not zipped, (renamed as txt file)

[BrassBuilder]

Golly. That was easy!

THANKS!!!

I gotta remember this now.

[BrassBuilder]

One more questions...

How do I get rid of the X, Y, Z arrows in the center of the screen. I don't want them to print out on my paper. I can get rid of the axis lines, but not the arrows.

Mike

[BrassBuilder]

file uploaded is Bob file not zipped, (renamed as txt file)

I know....I screwed that up, but I got my answer that I needed. Thanks.

[Trotline]

I'm not totally sure, but I think you're stuck with the axis arrows.

Luke

[JEST]

Translate the part to another area for the printing capture. Have done several screen shots and I have not found another way.