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
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
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
Can you make a screen cast showing what you want? I have a feeling the scale tool is not the tool your really after.
Phil Procario Jr.
Owner, Laser & CNC Creations
If you edit the sketch there's an option to scale.
Mark
Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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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
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.
ETFrench
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