globally scaling a part

[Scarecrow]

Hi,
I am desiging a promotional product. Essentially it's a scaled down model of one of our products. It will fit on the end of a pencil and remind the user that they should look us up on the net, or buy on of our products. Yeah I know, cheezy marketing....

I have all the parts that make up the full size assembly of my model. Is there any way to take the assembly and scale the whole thing down where one could then make a simplified scale model?

Surely this has come up before?

Thanks for any input

Gerry

http://www.scatmat.com

 

[MrPickles]

You mean you have a huge size model of this "pencil" modeled, and you want to shrink it down to an actual pencil size? (Like a 12" diameter pencil to a 1/4" diameter pencil?)

If so, you can "Insert - Feature - Scale", and enter accordingly....


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Mr. Pickles

 

[ShaggyPE]

If you want a part that is a scaled down version of an assy, you could save the assy as a part, then use Mr. Pickles method of "insert-feature-scale"

If you want a scaled down assy of your assy, I would save the entire assy as a copy then individually scale each part. Then re-open the copied assy. As long as you don't have distance mates in the assy, everything should maintain.

Hope these ideas help.
-Dustin Biber

 

[Scarecrow]

Thanks that worked just super!!!

Gerry