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Image sizing
shawn_franklin
Member Posts: 2 ✭
I can’t get in shape to resize my picture based on dimensioning something within it. Trying to do the dimension as soon as I import the image but no go. All the tutorials out there show making a line and dimension it then the image will resize but my line goes to the new dimension but the image doesn’t grow with it. What am I doing wrong? Thanks
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It'll only work if the line is constrained to the image box. This can be achieved in a relative fashion using variables, but it's not very intuitive or easy in my experience.
You could also try this:
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/20339/image-new-custom-feature
Once you see it/do it. it doesn't get much easier. No constraints necessary in fact discouraged probably, ha. You can constrain say a corner of the image then scale it, but you can't locate it with dimensions and then scale it. Scaling must be done first with a single dimension.
Developers note: this is an example of why I dislike the transform tool with a passion for scaling there is no easy method to scale geometry without taking measurements and doing the math to get the scale factor that the tool needs for imput..
If you have any other dimensions or dimension-ally constrained geometry in the sketch it doesn't work.
In my experience the image size can be changed by drawing a line inside the image and add dimension constrain to it. It only works on first dimension.
I could be wrong but if the image was added later in the drawing, when other dimensions present it won't work without constraining the line to the image boundaries.
[EDIT]
and that's exactly what @MDesign said and I can't delete my comment…