Model Size scaling Hyperworks

Casper Kruger
Casper Kruger Altair Community Member
edited February 2022 in Community Q&A

Hi,

 

I am trying to scale a models size up in the y direction only. When I use the scale function it allows me to decrease the size but not increase. I used 0.8 factor in the Y direction and it decrease by 20 %, but when I use 1.2 it still decreases and does not increase. Is this correct? 

I show the process below where I only scale in the Y direction of the meshed components. May I say the decreased size scaling work beautifully, but I cant increase the depth in Y. 

 

Thank you in advance. 

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  • Brett Ramsey_20633
    Brett Ramsey_20633 New Altair Community Member
    edited February 2022

    I believe I have identified what is causing your issues. The dialog from the scale tool can be seen below.

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    You can see that the +/- button highlighted. This means that minus scaling is activated. This will cause numbers greater than 1 to decrease the size of the model, and numbers less than 1 will cause the model to increase in size example to follow. 

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    Normal

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    0.8 with minus scaling active, notice the increase in size

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    1.2 with minus scaling active, notice the decrease in size

    Hope this helps

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