Copy with Base Line Command

[Civil Property Guy]

I need to select an object, receive a prompt for selecting a baseline to copy it by (serving the purpose of a base-point for position, but also incorporating rotation). Then prompt for two points by which to paste the object back down, matching the new angle and centering it on the new midpoint. I need the paste functionality to repeat just as the normal copy function does. One of my jobs involves repeatedly copying and orienting the same objects along different angles, and this would be a huge help.

Thanks for any help.

[Civil Property Guy]

If possible, it may be more useful to be prompted for the new angle selected with two points and then have a separate prompt for the position, instead of centering its position along the selected points.

[Tom Beauford]

I'm guessing you mean to copy a selected object from a point on the baseline perpendicular from geometric center from the selected object to other points on the baseline using nearest osnap and rotated perpendicular to those points.

Would the ARRAYPATH command take care of what you need?

How about Lee Mac's http://www.lee-mac.com/objectalign.html

maybe https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visua...855981#M320194

[Civil Property Guy]

I can't make use of these for the same purpose, because I'm not working with a continuous curve or polyline. If I were to pick up LISP as a novice, would this be a difficult command to program?

[Tom Beauford]

Very difficult for a novice, Lee's code will work with a Line, Polyline, Arc, Circle, Ellipse, XLine, Spline etc. I thought it looked exactly like what you were looking for.