I want to scale my assembly, but I can only scale on a part studio. What do I do?

moneshan_rathaparan

I want to scale my assembly so that it's smaller, by 0.5. But I can only scale on a part studio. I want to scale because the acrylic that I have to lazercut all the parts and assemble them is too small. I have to work with the given amount, because this is a school project, for those who may just ask to get more acrylic. Is there a way to scale the assembly, or if not, what else can I do?

glen_dewsbury

Do you have all the parts in one studio? Scale the parts all together and the assembly will update. Transform/scale will work with multiple studios but it's more work.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/64e959b129e3204eb8d149a9/w/2a22727a73893b6410806f1b/e/1e1310d465b051864c289a43

nick_papageorge073

The laser cut software might have a scaling option that would do all the parts in one shot. Check with the person who runs the machine.

Another thing you can do is put all the 2D top views of each part in a single drawing. It would not matter which part studio they came from. Bring them each in at 1/2 scale. Then when you export the drawing as a dxf for the laser cutter, they will all be half scale.

glen_dewsbury

Do you have all the parts in one studio? Scale the parts all together and the assembly will update. Transform/scale will work with multiple studios but it's more work.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/64e959b129e3204eb8d149a9/w/2a22727a73893b6410806f1b/e/1e1310d465b051864c289a43

moneshan_rathaparan

No, I have them in different studios. That's the problem. I could scale down each one by one, but that's a lot of work for a lot of part studios.

nick_papageorge073

The laser cut software might have a scaling option that would do all the parts in one shot. Check with the person who runs the machine.

Another thing you can do is put all the 2D top views of each part in a single drawing. It would not matter which part studio they came from. Bring them each in at 1/2 scale. Then when you export the drawing as a dxf for the laser cutter, they will all be half scale.

moneshan_rathaparan

Thanks