PartDesign Scaled

Description
PartDesign Scaled is one of the transformation options of MultiTransform. Contrary to the other options it is not available as a separate tool. It turns a transformation result into a sequence of scaled objects with evenly distributed scale factors. Starting with the unscaled base feature of the previous transformation the scale factor is increases or decreases until reaching the given value on the last item.



If there is no predefined transformation within the MultiTransform feature, a scaled item will be placed at the same position as the base feature. This may result in unexpected shapes if the base feature isn't covered completely by the scaled object. And thus it is not recommended to use Scaled as a single or a first transformation of a MultiTransform feature.



Scaling a transformed feature

 * 1) Do one of the following:
 * 2) * Double-click the MultiTransform object in the Tree view.
 * 3) * Right-click the MultiTransform object in the Tree view and select from the context menu.
 * 4) The  task panel opens.
 * 5) Right-click in the  list and select  from the context menu.
 * 6) A  item is added to the list and the task panel is extended at the bottom to allow to set the  and . See Options for more information.
 * 7) Click the  bar at the bottom to validate the options.
 * 8) Click the  button at the top to finish.

Scaling a single feature

 * 1) Select a feature of the current body in the Tree view.
 * 2) Do one of the following:
 * 3) * Press the button.
 * 4) * Select the option from the menu.
 * 5) The  task panel opens. See above.

Options
When creating or editing a Scaled object, the 'MultiTransform parameters' dialogue offers the following options:

List of features
The list of base features that are handled by this MultiTransform object.
 * See [[Image:PartDesign_MultiTransform.svg|16px]] MultiTransform, Usage for details about adding and removing features.

List of transformations
The list of transformations that are use by this MultiTransform object.
 * See [[Image:PartDesign_MultiTransform.svg|16px]] MultiTransform, Usage for details about adding and removing transformations.

Parameters

 * Factor: The factor to which the last feature is to be scaled.
 * Occurrences: Number of steps from unscaled (1) to Factor (including base and last feature).
 * Scaled transformations accept the number of occurrences of the predefined transformation as maximum value or any integer divisor of that number returning integer results. (12, 6, 4, 3, or 2 for 12 occurrences of a Linear or Polar Pattern)
 * Scaled single features accept any integer number larger than 1.

Limitations

 * See linear pattern feature for other limitations
 * See MultiTransform for more details