Parts become transparent after scale?
Parts become transparent after scale?
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I just scaled a part down to size and one of the faces has become invisible, but still appears in analysis and can be manipulated. Does anyone have any ideas to rectify this?






RE: Parts become transparent after scale?
RE: Parts become transparent after scale?
Have you tried scaling back up? If so did the face become solid again?
Use the Tools > Check function on the original solid. If there is a problem there, the scale function may not be able to deal with it thereby causing the transparency.
That's just a WAG though.
RE: Parts become transparent after scale?
RE: Parts become transparent after scale?
If you are wanting to create a 'shrinkage' configuration for a casting or injection moulded part, the SW scale tool is good because it creates a feature in the Feature Manager which can be supressed and unsupressed as needed. However, only the pre-scaled dimensions exist. Which can be confusing when trying to edit the scaled part. Uniform or non-uniform scaling can be applied.
If you just want to scale a part from say metric to imperial then the ModelRescaler macro from http