Scale an entire sketch?

[blackpuma]

Newbie question. I can't find any kind of manual for Fusion 360, so my apologizes for posting such a basic question.

I would like to scale my entire sketch that I've completed. How does one do this?

[blackpuma]

I'm answering my own question after having figured out how to coax an answer from the help web site, in case some other total newb has the same question.

1. Select Modify --> Scale
2. Select the sketch from the browser, rather than trying to select the entire sketch. (This was the non-obvious detail that I was missing.)
3. Now the scale window will allow one to scale as expected.

[Cathy.Wang_Autodesk · Accepted solution]

Hi, welcome to Fusion FAMLIY!

Fusion have scale function for scale body/component/skecth. You can use it to scale your sketch.

On Scale function, you can select the sketch node as the object. The sketch node is on the right browser tree. It will give you a default point as scale center. You can switch to Point select and select any point you want as the scale conter.

Enjoy Fusion!

Thank you!

[blackpuma]

Thank you, Cathy, for the welcome and your reply. I marked your answer as the solution because of the helpful screen shots.

[Anonymous]

excellent help. congrats !!!

[fishtruk]

I'm having a similar prob... but I can't select rrom the left hand browser either.  I'm not in a bind now with this but I know I'll need it in the future.

I uploaded a dwg file, then extruded the bodies I need and scaled them up by 2.54 (?). I went back to look at the sketch for some info, tried to scale it up as well but no luck selecting it.

Thanks! 

[HughesTooling]

Did you import the DWG or open it, it will be a linked design if you inserted it you'll have to break the link then you'll have a base feature in the timeline, you need to right click and select edit. If you have inserted the DWG let me know as I have a better way of working with them.

Mark

[fishtruk]

Hi Mark.....what are you? my guardian angel??

Thanks a lot-no kidding.

Well Mark, I uploaded a dwg to start the design, extruded stuff, then noticed it was too small...Scaled the bodies up by 2.54...all good.

I unblanked the sketch to look at some features and noticed I had not scaled that up. Then I tried and failed. That's just the facts, maam.

[HughesTooling]

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@fishtruk wrote:

Hi Mark.....what are you? my guardian angel??

Thanks a lot-no kidding.

Well Mark, I uploaded a dwg to start the design, extruded stuff, then noticed it was too small...Scaled the bodies up by 2.54...all good.

I unblanked the sketch to look at some features and noticed I had not scaled that up. Then I tried and failed. That's just the facts, maam.

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I've used DWG\DXF quite a bit so if I see a thread with DXF or DWG problems I usually try and help.

Can you attach a screen grab if you've turned history on show the timeline and the browser.

Thanks.

[fishtruk]

here...no timeline (don't know too much about that)

[HughesTooling]

OK as you've not enabled history I'm not sure why it's not working. In this quick test I selected the circle and extruded a body then scaled the body. Then I selected scale again and selected the sketch in the browser and I can scale the sketch.

Can you make a quick screencast, it might be best to upload the file again to another project for the screencast.

Mark.

[fishtruk]

I may be able to...don't know cause I'm swamped.

[wolfeg]

This was great. I was just going through the same questions about scaling. Could not select the item to scale but this answer was perfect. Thanks for the great info.

[562009168]

is it still viable to scale sketch uniform in current version ?

[Anonymous]

i am trying to scale an inserted dfx and cant get it to work. 

[Jim.Morton]

Im trying to import stl. file from faro quantom arm that was 3d scanned data. im able to import the data after finding out 10000 faces is max that fusion can recognize. now i have a scaleing issue in fusion to where my part is measuring in fusion 400+ inches how can i scale the mesh file so its a workable one to one 

[laughingcreek]

make sure your using "insert" and not "open " from the file menu, and then check your import units-