I am making a 2-D drawing but the drawing I was given to reference is not to scale and I need it to be. Is there a way for me to change the dimension of a line and have the rest of the drawing scale itself to that dimension?
I am making a 2-D drawing but the drawing I was given to reference is not to scale and I need it to be. Is there a way for me to change the dimension of a line and have the rest of the drawing scale itself to that dimension?
If you only want to to it in the drawing you can use 2012 SOLIDWORKS Help - Broken View Break Line Styles
And just tell appropriate lies in the dimension text when changing it to something you want it to to be.
Mason,
You sure got a job ahead of ya - Here is what I would do ...........
Take one dimension and find the difference between the SW dim and drawing dim - then use "Scale Entities" and use the difference as the scale factor.
Before you scale the drawing delete all the cheat dimensions, scale then re-dimension
Use one of the seemingly endless decimal dimensions and use one of the ones given and figure out the ratio - to have an accurate drawing you need to use as many decimals as you can, then after you scale it you can change the decimal factor when you re-dimension the drawing.
The real problem is this....
The drawing wasn't done 1:1 and then scaled down
Another issue....
These drawings were made with dimension blocks/charts in mind, in other words, this is just a pictogram, for assembly and sales people, not shop drawings, IMO.
Do you have an example - Scaling can have some issues -