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(OP)

Hello!

I need to resize (scale down) a SW part. All features and relations have to stay the same, only smaller by a certain factor.

What drives me mad is the fact that I had a macro for an older version of SW that does exactly that and now I can't find it anywhere, not on my drives or on the web.

How to go about doing this? Or a working macro, perhaps? :)

Tnx!

RE: Resizing

If the scaling is for shrinkage of material, the built-in SW Scale option can be used.

If you need to re-scale to correct a metric to imperial import you can use the ModelRescaler macro from http://www.lennyworks.com/solidworks/default.asp?ID=20

Or you could have used the keyword "scale" in the Search function here.
thread559-201364: SCALING ASSEMBLIES - SW2007
thread559-189607: Scaling An Assembly?
thread559-183482: Dimensioning
thread559-157594: Scaling down Solidworks parts

cheers

RE: Resizing

(OP)

ModelRescaler! That was it! Yippeee! :)

And as for search, I've tried "resize, "resizing",  and pretty much every other keyword except "scale". Well color me embarrased...

Cheers Cor!

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