dchapman90 Posted June 9, 2011 Posted June 9, 2011 First time poster, semi-long time reader. I've been all around the internet trying to figure out this problem and I am completely stumped. All I want to do is scale down the measurement of a dimension (not the size) to match something that was blown up. (I will attach the .dwg file). The original piece is on the bottom with a circle around the left end, this is where it will be zoomed in. The zoomed in part if detailed and that is what I am dimensioning. I have scaled up the zoom in part by a factor of 4, so all I need to do is scale down my dimensions by a factor of 4 right? This is much harder than I have found. I went on the Autodesk forum and they gave me a lot of complicated stuff about paper space and all that stuff, but all I want to do is scale down the dimension by 4, is there a way to do that? Please help, thank you. sample scale.dwg Quote
eldon Posted June 9, 2011 Posted June 9, 2011 Click on the dimension in question, and in the Properties box, go to Primary Units, Dim scale linear, and enter 0.25. Quote
dchapman90 Posted June 9, 2011 Author Posted June 9, 2011 Click on the dimension in question, and in the Properties box, go to Primary Units, Dim scale linear, and enter 0.25. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!! Quote
eldon Posted June 9, 2011 Posted June 9, 2011 Easy when you know how!! Keep on with the reading (and posting where necessary). Quote
rkmcswain Posted June 9, 2011 Posted June 9, 2011 The easy, cheating way is to just apply a factor of 0.25 to the dimension or to a new dimstyle. The better way is to go to a layout, create two viewports, one for the whole part and one zoomed into the detail. Then you can draw and dimension ONE set of geometry instead of copying things. Quote
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