All language subtitles for 17 Scale Sketch

This is tutorial number 17 and it covers how to use the scale sketch feature within

Katia V5. To start off let's open up a new part file in Katia and once you've

done that let's go into the sketcher. So click sketch and click any of the

planes. Now the scale feature is found here and you can also find it if you go to

insert, operation, transformation, scale. Now what you would want to use this

for is if you've already created a profile or sketch and you need to scale it

out by a certain amount. Now you'd want to do this when the profile or sketch

is very complicated and you don't want to go through all the math and try to figure

out exactly how big the rods are going to be, how far to pull this out and what not.

With the scale feature you click on the sketch, tell it how far out you want to

scale it and that's it. Now what we're going to do is we're going to create a

profile so I'm just going to create a little profile quickly.

And this is going to be a profile that it's not one that you'd want to make

bigger or smaller because then you'd have to figure out the rad of the circle

and just everything else. So by using the scale you're able to make it smaller

or bigger, quite easy. So to start off if you're scaling you need to know what you

want to scale. You can either do the whole profile or one line at a time.

So first off let's just do this one line here. So let's click it, click scale

and you have the option to duplicate it or do not duplicate it. Right now I've

put it to duplicate so you can see the original and the new one.

And whichever point you select is going to be where your scale begins.

So I'm going to select this point here and you can see as I pull it out it gets

bigger, as I pull it in it gets smaller. You're able to either do it by hand

by pulling it out and kind of snapping it to other points.

They've already determined or you're able to just scale it.

So I'm going to scale it to five, click enter and now I have the original

plus I have a five times the scale to it. I'm going to click control Z and

delete that one. Now let's do the entire sketch. So let's highlight the whole

thing and let's click scale and we'll click this point here.

So this is the point where the scale is going to originate from and let's make

everything 0.5. And now you can see that we've scaled this

down to 0.5. Now let's click control Z and delete it and let's do this whole

sketch again and this time we're going to do it at five.

So click this point here to originate and let's put it in five.

And if you zoom out you can see that we've scaled it up to five.

Now being able to scale back and forth is a very powerful tool because if you

create something one to one to what it's supposed to be but then someone's

asking you for say like a prototype part of it that's a third of the size rather than

going and remodeling everything you're able just to scale something down.

So in this case for the sketch all you have to do is either scale it up if you need to be

bigger or scale it down to make it smaller. So doing this allows you to play around

with the scale that you're working on and you don't have to do all the work all

over again. And that concludes our tutorial on how to use the scale sketch feature

with Inkitia V5.