Draft Stretch

Description
The tool stretches an object by moving some of its selected vertices. The equivalent action is editing the object and moving the points manually to a new position.

The command can only handle Draft Lines, Draft Wires, Draft Rectangles, Draft BSplines and Draft BezCurves. All other objects are ignored.



Usage

 * 1) Select an object that you wish to stretch.
 * 2) Press the  button. If no object is selected, you will be invited to select one.
 * 3) Click a point on the 3D view, or type a coordinate and press the  button.
 * 4) Click a second point on the 3D view, or type a coordinate and press the  button. The first two points define a selection rectangle. The vertices of the original object enclosed by this rectangle become highlighted.
 * 5) Click a third point on the 3D view, or type a coordinate and press the  button.
 * 6) Click a fourth point on the 3D view, or type a coordinate and press the  button. The second pair of points define a line, whose distance and direction will be used to stretch the figure attached to the highlighted points.

Options
The single character keyboard shortcuts mentioned here can be changed. See Draft Preferences.


 * To manually enter coordinates enter the X, Y and Z component, and press after each. Or you can press the  button when you have the desired values. It is advisable to move the pointer out of the 3D view before entering coordinates.
 * Press or click the  checkbox to toggle relative mode. If relative mode is on, the coordinates of the second point of the displacement are relative to the first point, else they are relative to the coordinate system origin.
 * Press or click the  checkbox to toggle global mode. If global mode is on, coordinates are relative to the global coordinate system, else they are relative to the working plane coordinate system.
 * The checkbox has no purpose for this command.
 * The checkbox has no purpose for this command.
 * Press or the  button to abort the command.

Preferences
See also: Preferences Editor and Draft Preferences.


 * To change the number of decimals used for the input of coordinates:.

Scripting
See also: Autogenerated API documentation and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.

There is no Python method to stretch objects. To emulate the results of the Draft Stretch command geometric properties of objects have to be modified.