This beam-like component consists of the two subcomponents the two pipes and the web with a hole. When I scale no attribute changes. Why? Here’s the project.
balk.skp (171.1 KB)
What are you trying to scale?
I can scale anything in your model…
FWIW: You have two components on top of eachother, could that be the problem?
As far as I know, there’s only one thing that can be scaled. When I scale I expect Lenx to reflect that change ans update.
Sorry, I didn’t see you were talking about a dynamic component…
This is the remains of a DC, there is a copy left inside
The children and parent are no longer in sync
What do want
A repetitive of unit along X?
balk fix1.skp (204.9 KB)
Working on with this I created another test project so now I have two which appear similar, at least they have the same attributes. When I scale they should create a number of copies placed one after the other. Project ‘beam_fix’ works but ‘beam’ does not. I can’t find what the crucial difference is so how do I find the fault? Is there a underlying parameter file one can browse? I really want to know where the fault is.
beam.skp (98.6 KB)
beam_fix.skp (102.2 KB)
beam_fix has two component parts with fixed lenx, whereas in beam, you just have the parent, you can make the inner geometry a component or group and for lenx use =2.5
beam needs to have a fixed which is not possible when you want it to be larger to cover the copies
pcmoor
I don’t think I got all that but …
cubes.skp (249.6 KB)
…just to eliminate any flaws in the other projects I’ve created a new, simple one ‘cubes’ and it has the same attributes as the ‘beam’ project. When scaling it behaves weird. The last copy is longer than the others and the result as a whole is repeated. If I scale to get 4 copies the result is 1 + 4 * 2 = 9 'Y’s. Please take a loo
the cubes have no fixed lenX, you fix a length with =
so replace 10 cm (grey) with =10
Yes, that did it. Thanks