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      <div class="title_topic3" id="xps10_pagetitle">Scale</div>
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      <p class="para_topic"> Proportionately resize the selected objects. Since the distance from the object to the reference point is affected, exercise care in choosing the reference point if you do not want the object to move.</p>
      <p class="para_topic"> If you selected a parametric body, a message will appear to let you choose between removing the body's parameters or ignoring the body.</p>
      <p class="para_topic"> This transformation type affects the size of an object and the distance between the object and its reference point. You can use a  <em>scale</em> or a non-uniform  <em>scale</em> method.
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      <div class="title_division"> About Scale</div>
      <p class="para_division"> Non-Uniform Scale allows you to resize objects independently with respect to the XC, YC, and ZC axes. This option can be used, for example, to incorporate variable shrinkage factors in mold design.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">  You cannot use Non-Uniform Scale via Move on a solid body. Use Copy instead. However, analytic face geometry (for example, a block feature) cannot be non-uniform scaled via Copy.</p>
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      <p class="para_division"> To non-uniform scale a solid body containing analytic surfaces, first convert those sheet bodies into b-surfaces using the Convert function (see the  <em>Modeling</em> Help), then sew them together into a new solid body valid for non-uniform scaling.
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      <p class="para_division"> Uniform Scale</p>
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      <p class="para_division"> Non-Uniform Scale</p>
      <p class="para_division"> The Non-Uniform Scale method makes Undo Last available even if the scaled object had been converted to a different kind of object.</p>
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                  <p class="para_note_body">  Once an arc is converted into a spline, it can no longer be restored to its original object type.</p>
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      <p class="para_division"> Non-Uniform Scale, an Arc is converted into a Spline</p>
      <div class="title_division"> Usage Notes</div>
      <p class="para_division"> When an object is transformed into a different type, some or all of the original object data may be lost (for example, attributes, view modifications, drafting objects, dimensions, tool paths, and offset sheet bodies).</p>
      <p class="para_division"> Subdivisions can not be used in Non-Uniform Scale.</p>
      <p class="para_division"> In order to transform the sheet bodies via Non-Uniform Scale, the defining curves must be transformed.  </p>
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