healthfreak912
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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?
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Parts become transparent after scale?
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CorBlimeyLimey
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I have no idea why the face became transparent, but you should be able to select it via the Select other option and change it back to solid.
CorBlimeyLimey
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Which scaling tool did you use? The SW built-in function or a 3rd party macro?
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.
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.
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healthfreak912
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I used the SW scale function. Is the third party macro preferable?
CorBlimeyLimey
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That depends what you are trying to do.
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 would be good. It does not create a feature in the Feature Manger and any subsequent edits use the scaled dimensions. Only uniform scaling is possible with this macro.
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 would be good. It does not create a feature in the Feature Manger and any subsequent edits use the scaled dimensions. Only uniform scaling is possible with this macro.
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