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Scale

CAD drafting Scale 0    Ribbon: Home, Draw - Modify > CAD software Scale 1 Scale

CAD drawing Scale 2   Menu: Modify – CAD drafting Scale 3 Scale

CAD software Scale 4   Toolbar: Modify – CAD drawing Scale 5

CAD drafting Scale 6 Command line: SC, SCALE

This command is used to decrease or increase the size of the selected objects whilst retaining their proportions (the scale factors along the X and Y axes are identical). If the scale factor is more than 1, the objects are increased in size; if it is less than 1,  they are decreased. The specified scale factor value is retained in the current work session until it is changed again. The command is applicable to lines, polylines, circles, arcs, splines, and ellipses.

Command options:

?

Opens the additional options to select objects.

Copy

Scaling copy of the selected objects.

Reference length

Scaling the selected objects towards the reference line whose length is a single scale factor and a new length for the reference line.

Points

Scaling the selected objects towards the reference line whose length is a single scale factor and a new length for the reference line, specified by two points.

Non-uniform scale

Setting different scales along the X-axis and Y-axis. When scaling circles and arcs non-uniformly, they are replaced by ellipses.

 

Selection of objects

Specifying the base point

Specifying the reference line

 

CAD software Scale 7

 

CAD drawing Scale 8

 

CAD drafting Scale 9      CAD software Scale 10

Specifying a new length for the reference line

Result

CAD drawing Scale 11               

CAD drafting Scale 12

Command prompts:

Select objects or [?]:

Select objects. Press ENTER when the selection is finished.

Specify base point:

Specify the base point.

Specify scale factor or [Copy/Reference length]:

Select the Reference length option.

Specify reference length:

Specify the first point.

Specify second point:

Specify the second point.

Specify the new length or [Points]:

Select the Points option.

Specify first point:

Specify the first point.

Specify second point:

Specify the second point.
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