autocad "divide command"

[henriklarson]

i am trying to use the divide command to place a block ( a repeating symbol)along a polyline. everything works fine except the block appears in the drawing offset from the polyline rather than aligned along and next to it.

 

[pardal]

Your insertpoint of the block shall be the point where you want the block to be located on the polyline.

If the block is a drawing, you shall set the basepoint in the same way.
see a sample here

http://theswamp.org/lilly.pond/devitg/dividing.dwg

Pardal

 

[henriklarson]

Thanks, when you use the divide command to place a block at regular intervals along a polyline it does not ask for an insertion point, you select the line as part of the command. However everytime i do this the block appears at regular intervals but offset from the line. Can you help please.

 

[IFRs]

pardal was correct.
You are doing everything right, except for drawing the block correctly. Go to the block drawing and type "base". The locate that point. AutoCAD puts that point on the polyline when you insert the block using "divide". You have to move that point, called the base point, in your block drawing. Do that by typing "base" and specifying a new base point. Then save and close the drawing. Now, in your other drawing with the polyline, you must redefine the block by either deleting all occurrances of it and "purge"ing the drawing or some other method (and there are several). NOw divide again and it should be OK.

 

[pardal]

If your block is inside the drawing , you shall redifine it's insertion point , to be the point where you want the block to be placed on the poliline.

Guess your block is a circle , the insertion point could be at center , quadrant or any where in the same drawing.

Do a test with a new block .

The block have a insert point if internal to the drawing and a base point if external to the drawing.
But a external block when inserted on a new drawing share the same base point and insert point.

The fact is that such point is the point where the block gather or meet polyline.

Hope It Help.




Pardal