How to Change Dimensions Using Scale?
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Hi,
Suppose I have an object that measures 5 feet long by the tape measure, and I want to change the length to 3 feet 4 inches, retaining the proportions of the object.
I could do that by trial and error using the Scale tool. I see that as you rescale an object, the box at the bottom of the screen shows the percentage difference as you drag the scale handle.
To make the adjustment from 5 feet to 3 feet 4 inches in one scale movement, do I use a formula to figure out what the percentage change needs to be? If so, what is that formula? Or is there another, easier way to do it?
Thanks,
Bill -
Select the object to be scaled...
Use the Scale tool, start pulling in the direction desired and type 3'4" <enter>.
The size is now 3'4" irrespective of what it was before.
Scale will take dimensions if you append a units suffix [or in the case of feet+inches suffixes], otherwise it assumes a numerical factor.
So 3', 45", 6.5m, 78cm and 9021mm will all work and set the selected size to be that dimension; whereas a plain 2 will scale x2 !Also note that the Tapemeasure tool can be used to Scale a whole group/component, or even the model, if you pick two points and then type in the required dimension, it asks you if you want to scale everything - Yes scales everything so that the picked distance is now what you've typed; this is in all axes.
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Great! Thanks.
Bill -
Hi TIG
Can you please explain little more these scale option with tape measure tool. I have tryed it but it does not work for me. Please post some picture example. These option could be very useful for me. Thank you in advance.
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Here is what the Help Center is saying about the Tape measure when scaling a whole model and when scaling a given entity (group/component) only:
http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95006
http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=116447 -
thanks. I forgot about these nice SU online tutorial base. Will use it more in future
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