Lock Scale for Solidworks
Lock Scale for Solidworks
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ProE has the Lock Scale feature and the Sketcher tool. this allows changing all dimensions to scale when you change just 1 dimension. Is there a similar thing for Solidworks?
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RE: Lock Scale for Solidworks
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This allows uniform and non-uniform scaling, but creates a feature in the history (Feature Manager), and can also create confusion when editing a feature created before the Scale feature.
Another method is to use the ModelRescaler macro from http
This applies a scale to the actual feature sketch dimensions, and does not create feature in the FM. So no confusion when editing, but only uniform scaling is available.
RE: Lock Scale for Solidworks
THe idea of this is that you build the model to 1:1 scale, if you need to make it bigger then you can use the Scale feature, or you will have to roll back the tree and change each feature to the proper size. I am afraid scaling the dimensions could potentially cause sketch realationship problems/errors and cause you far more harm than good.
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RE: Lock Scale for Solidworks