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How to scale a sketch parametrically?

john_robinson568
john_robinson568 ✭✭
edited April 18 in Community Support

Hi all,

I am making a simple jewelry box, with the outline of a rose flower debossed into the lid. I created the sketch of the rose in Inkspape, and then imported the resulting .DXF into onshape. The sketch is very complex, lots of curves and vertices. I know that when you open a sketch, and it has no dimensions, that if you add a single dimension and then change that dimension, the whole sketch will scale accordingly. The problem I am having is that that only seems to work when the sketch is open for editing. If I add a single dimension to the rose that I am importing based on a parameter (I am trying to scale the size of the rose based on the outside diameter of the lid), then when I change that paraemter, then the sketch does not scale, instead it tries to pull the sketch apart, which causes the model to fail. So now I'm a bit lost. I figure that there must be a simple way to do this, but I'm afraid the solution is escaping me. Appreciate any tips. Cheers, John

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  • eric_pesty
    eric_pesty PRO
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    Best way to do this is to create solids/ surfaces for what you want to do first and scale these instead.

    Basically "delay" the scaling of that part until you are done with the sketch itself.

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