Space Points Equally Along a Path

If you need to space points or objects equally along a straight line or simple arc, the Array command can provide a quick and easy way to do that. But what if your path isn't a line, arc, or circle?

The Measure command (available at the command line, under Draw-->Point-->Measure, or on the extended Draw panel of the Ribbon under the Point pull-down) places points or blocks at specified intervals on an object.

In the next image, I ran Measure on the spline with an interval of 3. PDMODE is set to 35, so you can see the points.

You can also use Measure to place blocks instead of points. You can choose to have the blocks be inserted with no rotation...

...or rotated so that their horizontal lines are tangent to the path at that point.

Comments

[Murray Clack]

As an additional tip to Measuring blocks along a path... Some users may have noticed that when Measuring a block that contains attributes, the attributes will disappear from the block. There are some tricks around this (eg. create a block of the block, measure the new block, then explode the new blocks which leaves the original block intact c/w attributes), but the easiest way around this problem is to simply use the ATTSYNC command on the measured blocks, and the attributes will reappear (Although, I am not sure if the ATTSYNC command exists in LT)

[Kate Morrical]

Good addition, thanks. Although you're right that ATTSYNC is not available in LT.

[SBL Clipping path]

Good post! thanks

Regards,
SBL Graphics