Scaling Down a Big Design

[rwanttaja]

Can Solidworks scale an dumb (imported) solid? If so you may be able to export and re-import it via STEP and scale the imported copy.

I actually received the vehicle in several formats...one of which WOULD have printed if I'd set the printer scaling factor to 1%.

However, I do want to be able to edit the vehicle to reflect the difference in the mission I was associated with, and to optimize it for my particular 3D printer. And...I'm hoping to modify it to use as a stand for the challenge coin I received after mission completion.

I may end up just redrawing it from scratch; a good training exercise. The amusing thing is that all the features on the model I bought ($7) have German labels. Been pummeling the online German to English dictionaries to figure out what stuff like "Schnitt-Linear-Austragen-Dünn4" is....

Ron Wanttaja