Scaling options?

Scaling options?

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Scaling options?

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Some time ago, I started making a model in Solidworks, and it ended up getting put on the backburner for ages. I now want to continue working on it, but don't have access to solidworks, so I imported the file to Fusion360. it imports fine, and I can work on it without issue, but the scale is totally off for what I need it to be. I don't know why, as it was made in mm, and imported as mm, but it's only about 2cm tall. 
Any way,  the model has a lot of cylindrical bodies, and I know I want those to be 1.4mm in diameter. They are currently 0.08mm in diameter.

What's the best way to scale the entire model uniformly to hit that target? The rest of the model is too organic to try and use with any ease. 
I'd love to be able to look at the end of one of the cylinders, create a sketch, then project the face, dimension it to 1.4mm diameter and have the whole model scale up to meet that, but afaik, there's no way anything like that can be done right? 

Any plug-ins/add-ons that can work some magic like that at all?

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jeff_strater
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There is no way to do that via sketch.  However, knowing the hole sizes helps.  Just scale the design uniformly by 1.4/0.08 or 17.5, and you should get the results you are after.

 


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Thanks for that! Never really been quite comfortable with the whole "scale factor" thing, but that calculation certainly makes a lot more sense of it now 🙂 
Still would be nice in future of there was an easy way to scale things when importing though. Import geometry, select edge/face/whatever that you know the length of, type it in, and it scales everything based on that. 

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