topic Re: Need help scaling a sketch in Fusion Support Forum

Need help scaling a sketch

alorenz812 — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:25:23 GMT

I have a dxf file where the scale is way to large for the piece of steel I am trying to cut it on. I watched multiple videos and read a handful of posts regarding this topic, but none of these items helped with my problem. Below is a snip of my sketch. When I try the Modify > Sketch Scale tool it only allows me to increase the size and not reduce it. Also you can see the current sketch width is a few hundred inches. I am trying to cut this on a 12"x18" piece of 16 ga steel. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Re: Need help scaling a sketch

jhackney1972 — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:43:50 GMT

Please attach your model which has the imported DXF. If you want to also attach the DXF, it has to be zipped first.

Re: Need help scaling a sketch

alorenz812 — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:04:30 GMT

Okay the file should be attached now. Thank you.

Re: Need help scaling a sketch

HughesTooling — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:39:54 GMT

@alorenz812 wrote:

When I try the Modify > Sketch Scale tool it only allows me to increase the size and not reduce it.

Did you try enter a number less than one as the scale factor? For 10x smaller 0.1 or 0.01 for 100x as the scale factor for example?

Mark

Re: Need help scaling a sketch

HughesTooling — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:43:36 GMT

Lookig at the image it looks like the logo is about 700" so if you enter 18/700 as the scale factor it should scale to about 18"

Mark

Re: Need help scaling a sketch

alorenz812 — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 20:28:14 GMT

That worked perfect. I was thinking I had to enter a negative number, but if 1 equals the current size it would make sense to just enter a number in a decimal format less than 1. Thank you for your help.

Re: Need help scaling a sketch

jhackney1972 — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 20:37:53 GMT

Now that @HughesTooling has given the answer and you have an acceptable solution, make sure that you mark your forum question as solved.