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Scale a sketch
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Scale a sketch

Scale a sketch

(OP)
Hi to all,

How can I scale a fully constrained sketch?

I´ve tried with Transform, but I can only create a copy of my sketch, with no associative lines, and without dimensions.

I´m using NX10.
Thanks in advance!

Airin
NX Designer

RE: Scale a sketch

You will get the what you need if you scale the body being created by the sketch, utilizing scale body.

RE: Scale a sketch

Unfortunately, there is no way to associatively scale curves in NX.

However, here is a work-around:
Create an extrude feature from your sketch; give it a start and end distance of zero. This will create a sheet body that you can use as input for the "scale body" command; the scale body command will create an associative feature. If/when you need to use the scaled curves as input for another feature, change the curve selection to "face edges" and select the scaled sheet body.

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RE: Scale a sketch

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You can create a constant expression say s and set it to 1 ( s=1 )
now in the expression dialog change all the expressions that afect geometric sccaling
(angles are not) to (xxxx * s) where xxxx is the current expressions values.
after you do this.
your sketch is in scale 1 (s=1)
now change s to the value you need say s=2.125 and you sketch is scaled to 2.125.

RE: Scale a sketch

(OP)
Thank you to both of you. I´ve tried it and works well ;)

Airin
NX Designer

RE: Scale a sketch

(OP)
Thank you a984928. I´ll definitely use this one. It requires a previous work, but it´s perfect for my particular case.

Airin
NX Designer

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