Scaling behavior

#1

The behavior of scaling is a little odd for me. Could you please elaborate on how you expect scaling to work?

For example, when scaling a model (then finishing whatever work you were doing) and then loading a new model, the scaling value is still what it was on the previous model. So, when you loaded the new model, is the new model now scaled to the scaling value or is it the original size?

Or, if you scale a model, the program applies that scale to the model (as expected). But if you re-enter the scale module, the program seems to repeat the scaling of the model (ie: say 50% of a model already scaled by 50%, and so on). I would have expected that you would enter 0.5 for the initial scaling. If you wanted half of that again, you would enter 0.25.

How have you programmed scaling to work?

Thanks,
Robert

#2

Hi robert,

The implementation is as follows:

The scaling dialog box doesn’t give you an actual ‘state’ of the selected object’s scale.
It gives you an option to enter a scaling factor to apply.
It gets applied when you press apply button.

Last year some users made requests that it would be handy to remember the values in these boxes after closing them.
If you would have to scale lots of parts seperately you would just have to press apply.
So along this lines, al dialog boxes remember their values.

Elco