@gaieus said:

Hi Ken,

1. Make a group of what you want to resize

1. Enter the group's editing context (short: double click)
2. Use the tape measure tool to resize the content insidethe group
3. Explode the group if needed.
   Lesson learned; the tape measure tool always resizes the content of the context it is used in. If outside any group/component ("top level" or "model" context), the whole model while only the content of a certain groups/component you are editing.

Fantastic. I should have tried that ... it makes sense. Can't wait for the weekend to try it out.

While I was happy to see this thread end in a happy ending I was hoping to take a small twist to the conversation and see if this friendly group could help me with my relatedproblem. What I'd like to be able to do is as follows:

• Accurately change the size of a shape in my drawing;
• without changing the overall scale of the rest of the drawing

I would like to use the Tapemeasure approach of typing in exact measurements (e.g., 5" by 7") rather than the relative approach of the Scale tool (e.g., make this shape 95% as big, etc.). The problem is the Tape Measure tool seems to always want to resize the whole drawing which is not desired. The Scale tool does behave correctly WRT to this "scoping" and only scales that objects I've selected leaving the rest of the model untouched but as previously mentioned the Scale tool seems only to allow me to put in relativemeasurements which is not what I want.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ken