Zoom to Scale

Sep 13, 2005 3 Replies

Is there a way to calibrate your display with Solidworks in order to get a full scale zoom? I have it in some other programs like CorelDraw and I think Autocad used to have it. With some of the newer Solidworks features like 'Change Transparency', and bigger, flatter displays it would be nice to be able to take a full scale look at parts and assemblies.


Sub main() Set swApp = CreateObject("SldWorks.Application") Set modelDoc = swApp.ActiveDoc Set modelView = modelDoc.ActiveView

modelView.Scale2 = 0.8 modelDoc.GraphicsRedraw2 End Sub

I basically changed the "0.8" value until the model > Is there a way to calibrate your display with Solidworks in order to get a

Joe Jones of NewHamshire CAD has had this out for a long time. It looks surprisingly like Jason's macro.

' ****************************************************************************** ' SCALE1.swb ' Macro written by Joe Jones snipped-for-privacy@nhcad.com ' ' NEW HAMPSHIRE CAD
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' ' Mechanical Design and Custom Programming ' ******************************************************************************

Dim swApp As Object Dim modelDoc As Object Dim modelView As Object

Sub main() Set swApp = CreateObject("SldWorks.Application") Set modelDoc = swApp.ActiveDoc Set modelView = modelDoc.activeView

modelView.Scale2 = 0.859 modelDoc.graphicsRedraw2 End Sub

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