Scaling of a revolved spline

[Chrissekely]

I am creating a wood spindle shaped body for a small project of mine.  In doing so, I have encountered what seems to be a bit of a glitch.  Maybe it was just a design oversight or something you plan to further develop eventually.  Or maybe it's just a problem , for some reason, on my end.  This is not critical for my project, so I can find a workaround, but, nevertheless, it is frustrating.

Anyway, here it is: I created a sketch with a spline roughly parallel to the y-axis.  I then revolved this spline about a line parallel to the y-axis creating what looks like a long, ornamental stairway baluster (or railing spindle).  I then attempted to scale the resulting body. I can grow this body uniformly or along any axis , but I cannot shrink it at all.

Thank you for your help.  If I can provide anything more for you to help diagnose this issue, please let me know.

[joe_wright1]

Hi, I tried reproducing this problem, but things are working OK for me. Perhaps there is something in your design that is causing this behavior to surface.

Are you able to share your design with me so I can troubleshoot the problem? My email is joe.wright@autodesk.com. You can either export a Fusion Archive and send me that via email, or share a link to the design with download permission enabled.

Thanks!

Joe

[joe_wright1]

I got the design and tried it out. I selected the profile sketch, revolved it, then attempted to scale it. I was able to shrink and grow the body. I also tried this on the 3 bodies you already created, and got the same result.

I am noticing one issue though. If I do this scaling by dragging the arrow icons, then shrinking below 1.000 is hard. Once I drag the arrow below 1.000, it seems to immediately want to scale down to 0.000. Is that what you are seeing? I was able to work around this by slowly moving the mouse after it jumps-- it is a little finicky, but it should start sliding again in the sub-1.000 range. Using the text fields to enter a decimal scaling factor seems to work fine.

Thanks,

Joe

[Chrissekely]

I'm sorry I've taken a while to respond.  I've been busy with a few other things.  Anyway, I did attempt the scaling again.  This time, it worked just fine-just the way you described it working for you.  The response I experienced from the software was significantly different last time.  I had tried the same things, but got different results. 

Could it be a RAM or processor speed issue?  The computer I am running Fusion 360 on is a Windows 10 desktop machine with an i7- 3.4 GHz processor and 8Gb of RAM.  It runs Fusion *okay* but feels a bit under powered sometimes. Maybe this is causing some of the glitchiness I've experienced?