Doing tiny work on SU!

[Mike Lucey]

Hi Guys,

I'm working on a project that involves very small dimensions, .01mm and less! Its a change from my normal arch work which SU is fine for.

To make life easier for the small work I mentally multiply everything by 10 so .01mm becomes .1mm. Sometimes I use a factor of 100. When the drawing / model is complete I reduce the model size by the multiplying factor I used.

I'm wondering if it would make some sense to have a 'fooled' SU template for working with very small dimensions as this would allow me to input the correct dimension from scratch and when the drawing / model is finished and saved it reverts to normal SU.

Maybe the 'setup' / template could be called 'Micro Mode'

I hope I am making myself clear. Any thoughts appreciated.

Mike

[Box]

Just work in metres with the Display units format unticked.
That way you can use simple numbers and scale down when complete.

[Mike Lucey]

@box said:

Just work in metres with the Display units format unticked.
That way you can use simple numbers and scale down when complete.

I'll try that, thanks

[KC Richard]

I've always drawn to the correct scale, and for any complex operations such as intersecting curved shapes (which always seems to confuse SU at small scale) I just make a duplicate component and scale it up by 100 times, before editing the larger component. All the changes are correctly duplicated in the correct scale model. The oversized model can then be deleted.

Just saves having to scale back down again which I find is not always 100% accurate, dimension-wise.