Expand String

On the Design tab, in the Editing group: Click the Expand String tool to expand the current string in an inwards or outwards direction based upon a specified expansion distance. Partial string selection is supported.

You can define a default Expansion Distance value as part of your Vizex options:

• Click the Project tab to open the backstage menu.
• Click on the String Editor tab of the Project Options | Vizex form.

You can reset the default by specifying a new expansion distance on the ribbon:

The tool will find the plane of best fit and use that plane to do the projection.

If the plane of best fit does not provide a valid result, the process will check for the presence of an active section and use that instead. Otherwise the process will fall back to the default behaviour of expanding in Plan view.

On the Design tab, in the Editing group:

1. Click the Expand String tool on the Design tab, in the Editing group.

   

2. If the strings you want to expand are not already selected, you will be prompted to select them. Partial string selection is supported.

   

   The direction in which the strings expand will depend on the direction in which the selection was made.