keyshot scale

Help and Troubleshooting
1

good morning
how to scale from left to right or viceversa ?
Example: I want to keep the object locked to the left and scale it to the right.

do I “necessarily” have to draw a pivot object?

how to ?

2

I think yes, it’s only way to set up scale center point in KS if it’s not lay in center or origin of the object.

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3

That question caught me curious. So I ran a quick test, with a possible workaround.

  • duplicate the object you want to scale in a direction
  • check the size of the bounding box (in the properties)
  • move the duplicated part(s) with the same distance as the size
    • move the part left, when you want to scale to the right side
  • select both object and the scale origin is on the side, you want

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Hope that helps (a bit)
CheerEO
Marco

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4

Moving both parts into a group, enables to scale only the group and keep the values

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5

thats a great test Marco, and can confirm it will work, while rather clumsy of a process. If KS had a bit better plugin/extension/scripting experience, this would be the PERFECT way of addressing it.

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6

This could be achieved with code!

7

very interesting suggestion,
thx @marco.wodarz

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