In This Tutorial the Tutor will

Explore the Scale Feature in

Magazine Rack
SolidWorks
Objectives
How to use the Scale
feature to increase
and decrease your
object

After

Before

Step 1. Finding the Scale Feature in

SolidWorks
To find the Scale feature in SolidWorks
go into the command Manager Insert
Features Scale
The parameters menu will appear in
the left hand side of the screen
If you want to double the size of the
box with having to re-draw the feature
go into Origin uniform Scaling and
manually pick 2 as this will double the
size of the object

Step 2. Doubling the size of the

Object
When you have picked 2 for the uniform
scaling click on the green tick
This will increase the size by double from
100mm size box to 200mm
To change the box along the different axis
you can use click on origin and de-select
the uniform scaling

If you want the box to increase along the

x axis type in 3 and click ok

Step 3 Changing along the different

axis
X,Y,Z
As you can see the box has increased along
the x axis three times
The same will apply on the other two axis

Step 1 Using Scale to form a ellipse

from a sphere
Using the Scale feature to
create a ellipse from a sphere
Create a sphere and use
scaling to change the sphere
to an ellipse by going into the
parameter menu go into
Centroid and again change
the different axis to get your
ellipse

Step 1 Using Scale to form a ellipse

from a sphere

This is the sphere changed

into a ellipse using the scaling
feature