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3D Scale Help

jim_busardo — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 23:18:04 GMT

Hi All,

I am trying to get 3dscale to work properly. No matter what I do it always scales in all 3 axis. I click the 3dscale function, select my object, click the axis I want to scale, choose my scale factor, but it always goes in all directions. Is there a setting or something that I missed or am I doing something wrong. I have watched several videos and everyone else doesn't seem to have an issue.

Thanks for your help

Re: 3D Scale Help

cadffm — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 06:35:09 GMT

Hi Jim,

you are talking about "my Objects":

Are they MESHs?

Non-uniformly scaling is available for meshs only!

[F1] 3DSCALE info

Re: 3D Scale Help

tramber — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:07:49 GMT

You can create a block of your objects, then select its insertion to explore the properties palette.

There, you will find the 3 different scaling settings that you can change individualy.

You may explose the block after that process, if needed.

Re: 3D Scale Help

tramber — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 08:13:50 GMT

Some won't explose due to some solids ... depends on the objects you included

Here I put a Y scale different from 1

It is interesting to know that you can still specify X [then ENTER], then its value, or Y or Z in the insertion point specification process. Give it a try, it works on inserting a block or pasting objects.