Modeling timepiece components in MMs....

[Anonymous]

The timepiece overall size is 44mm, and so the hour wheel is 6.5mm with gear teeth at .2mm. Being tiny I need to zoom in to minute details, and yet when working in sketches there is a point I can't zoom past, am I missing something in settings or do I need to convert the measurements?

Thanks,

Alldaron

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

You are not missing anything.  There is a limit on how far in you can zoom.  The main reason for this limit is that the graphics itself is limited, so at some point the graphics will become too coarse to be useful.  However, modeling timepieces should be OK, so maybe that limit is too large.  I will bring this up with the graphics team to see if we can make adjustments. 

Jeff

[kshea9RNL8]

Alldaron,

When modeling the very small parts perhaps you could scale it up 2 or 3 times, when completed scale it back down to proper size.