TonyMS Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 I want to scale a polyline representation of a foil along one axis only, so that it becomes longer and thinner. Is there a way to do this, please? Tony MS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 scale one axis only, so that it becomes longer and thinner. That sounds like two axis to me. First to get longer and second to get thinner. In other words a non-proportional scale on x & y. If that is the true design intent then make a block of the geometry and then insert block. The dialog box will give you options for a different scale for x & y. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyMS Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 Brilliant! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarsT Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I had been trying for years to figure this out and just stumbled across it today. I also noticed that you have to uncheck the "Explode" box. I guess people who use blocks more often that I do have discovered this on their own. When I was using Generic CAD years ago, the scale command allowed you to scale X and Y axis separately, and I never understood why they took that option out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngmbm Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 thanks.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitaminm Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 Mr JS Mather, this is good, but it cannot be explode after I just scale down the Y axis (I do the section drawing), and how to explode the block and make it as real lines in Acad drawing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSasu Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 As long as a block inserted with different scale factors on axis don't contains 3D solid entities, it should be exploded without problems. I suspect that you un-checked the Allow exploding option when created the block. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbroada Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 but it cannot be explode after I just scale down the Y axis are you sure you are using 2010? You have been able to explode non uniform blocks for a very long time. Make sure you have allowed exploding when you create the block (although I think that can be changed in properties if you have). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEANT Posted June 26, 2012 Share Posted June 26, 2012 A non-uniformly scaled reference to a block containing Region entities will also fail to explode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nazmul2019 Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 how to unblock scale y Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 1 hour ago, nazmul2019 said: how to unblock scale y Are you asking how to explode a nonuniformly scaled block? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamensterms Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 Old thread, something for the googlers... One option for non-uniform scale of 3DSOLID - convert 3DSOLID to MESH using CONVTOMESH, then block the MESH. Scale to whatever, explode the block, convert MESH back to 3DSOLID with CONVTOSOLID. You with lose some geometry smoothness when converting to mesh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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