How to Scale an Assembly from 40% to 100%?
How to Scale an Assembly from 40% to 100%?
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I have an assembly that was created as a model at 40% scale. I need to insert this into a different assembly that is 100% scale. Is there a way in SolidWorks to scale the first assembly by 2.5 times to make it match the scale of the second assembly?






RE: How to Scale an Assembly from 40% to 100%?
If necessary, save the part as an assembly after scaling to regain what you had. I'd recommend saving your part and new assembly in a different directory, just to keep from messing something up or overwriting a file by accident.
Jeff Mowry
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RE: How to Scale an Assembly from 40% to 100%?
Jason
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1/2.54=0.3937007874015748031496062992126
Is there a problem with units afoot? Parts modelled to inch values in a centimeter-scaled file?
Imported parts?
RE: How to Scale an Assembly from 40% to 100%?
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RE: How to Scale an Assembly from 40% to 100%?
RE: How to Scale an Assembly from 40% to 100%?
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: How to Scale an Assembly from 40% to 100%?
RE: How to Scale an Assembly from 40% to 100%?
Thsn scale up each dimension & keep 2 configurations?
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RE: How to Scale an Assembly from 40% to 100%?
Still, even in this application, I would model everything full scale, then scale the assembly down (Save as Part file first) for the wind tunnel test.
Jason
UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2005 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2006 SP3.0 on WinXP SP2
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But I'll put it in my hat for later & see if I have a need to use it.
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RE: How to Scale an Assembly from 40% to 100%?
I wound up just using the Scale function. It didn't scale the part's distance from the origin, so I had to manually move the part to its proper location, and I think I lose some ability to edit the part, but at least the part is the right size now.
Thanks for all of the help everyone!
RE: How to Scale an Assembly from 40% to 100%?
Design the part the way it should be. That is the real CAD part/assembly. Create a scale configuration and make separate drawings. The real part and the scale model part should never have the same part number anyway, IMHO. All you need do is supress the scale factor for the real item. You can also do this at an assembly level, then join the parts for a monolithic scale model for testing.
Any method you use should be explainable, reproducible, and reliable.
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RE: How to Scale an Assembly from 40% to 100%?
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