scaling inside the sketch environment

scaling inside the sketch environment

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scaling inside the sketch environment

Sungod3000
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Hi,

 

Im working a lot with offset in sketches to keep tolerances on my 3d printed parts.

 

So I sketch out something, add an offset of x, continue and then start finetuning an that includes scaling.

 

AFAIK I can only scale the whole sketch, that unfortunately means that my offsets also get scaled.

 

Is there a way to scale inside the sketch environment? I tried just selecting and dragging certain parts like eg a circle but that deforms the parts because I cant lock the dimensions.

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Lokkende
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I know this is an old thread. I had what I think is a similar issue. I imported a gear from Inkscape. It came in with wrong dimensions.  What I did is "per suggestions" set the DPI to 96, and set all document settings to inches. I set the transform setting to inches as well. It sill did not come it correctly. Then I set the scale to 400% in inkscape. When I imported the .svg file into Fusion I scaled it back down (by a weird number - something like .63). I had to do this multiple times (trial and error) to get the gear to be round and of the correct dimensions "it seemed to be partially elliptical originally with the radius of the circle not the same in different directions".  Now I have the problem of the sketch not maintaining the scale when I go to edit it. I have read some suggestions on how to solve this. I will try these later. I have never worked with CAD before, I did dabble in Autocad  when I used to work, nothing serious. Also, I have only been using Fusion for a few days.

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