Scale by editing dimension

[etfrench]

Does this actually work?  If so what's the secret sauce?

From 'What's New':

"Good news everyone! This option was talked about in this post awhile back, and we’re glad to share it with you. Now when you create multiple sketch entities in your sketch, you can affect the scale of entire sketch by just editing the very first dimension that you have created. This should make it easier to scale/edit the scale of sketches earlier in the design workflow, without needing to dimension every single sketch entity separately."

[jeff_strater]

@etfrench - there is an option for this.  This is not my favorite enhancement, FWIW, but if you want to use it, you need to turn on the option:

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[jeff_strater]

oh, and it only works if you have one and only one dimension.

[etfrench]

Whew, I was afraid it would automatically rescale the sketch whenever the first dimension was edited.  I think I can guarantee that it won't be turned on on my computer 😀

[chrisplyler]

I wouldn't use it either, because I constrain as I go. I've never once drawn an entire complex sketch and then started adding dimensions.

But I've seen enough threads on this forum of people who have completely unconstrained sketches and lamenting that it's too hard to get everything scaled right, so maybe this will help them.