Is it possible to scale a pipe without scaling the diameter of the pipe?

[itchytoes]

Hi -

I'd like to be able to scale a pipe created from a sketch but not scale the diameter of the pipe itself.

Is that possible?

Thanks

Betty

[jeff_strater]

Hi @itchytoes,

The answer is "yes, kind of".  You can use the Scale command in "non-uniform scale" mode to do this, if it happens to be oriented along the major axes (there is no "reorient" in the scale command, unfortunately):

But, if your pipe is sketch-based, you can always just edit the sketch and make the line longer:

Jeff

[itchytoes]

Hi  -

Thanks for the reply.  

My pipe is never just a straight line.   It's always some sort of curvy thing, or a closed loop thing.   So, there's really no one axis it can grow on.

I tried to find a scale command under the sketch operation.  Is there such a thing, or did I miss it?

Betty

[PhilProcarioJr]

@itchytoes

Can you make a screen cast showing what you want? I have a feeling the scale tool is not the tool your really after.

[HughesTooling]

If you edit the sketch there's an option to scale.

Mark

[itchytoes]

Hi --

I didn't want to to bother with a screen cast, but I uploaded an image.  It just shows a pipe created from a sketch.

I'd like to be able to make the pipe bigger, but keep the pipe diameter the same.

I found the sketch scale tool -- that may work but I think it might be more work.   Sometimes I want to make a pipe from one sketch, copy the pipe a few times and just scale the copies.  Otherwise, I would need more sketches, which seems like more work and more sketches to keep track of.  But maybe that's just me.

Betty

[etfrench]

Bigger is an ambiguous term. I'm assuming you want to retain the current shape, but have a larger perimeter.

If you create the pipe from a sketch, then you can scale the sketch and then create the pipe using either the pipe or sweep commands. 

When using the Press/Pull command you can enter the precise diameter/radius needed.