Model Scaling

I recently built a QUEST model on a CAD layout and it turned out the layout wasn't properly scaled.  This is easy enough to fix, just a matter of either modifying the CAD part in the QUEST drawing world, or just scaling it in the dimensions section of the layout accessory.

But what about the elements?  I had to scale the layout to about 120% of its original size and didn't feel like moving all the machines and buffers and everything to their new locations on the layout.

So what would I do other than write an SCL macro that lets me move all elements in a model relative to some new scale.  Here's the code.

Basically what it does is populates a spot structure, multiplies the location coordinates by the scale input by the user, and locates the element on the spot's new coordinates.

The best part about writing this macro was that it took about 5 minutes, just by copying in SCL subroutines I've previously written and was able to find using my SCL Subroutine Indexer.

Update: When using this macro I found it might be better to be able to scale the model differently along various axes.  So I went and modified the macro to scale each axis to different values as input by the user using a var_pop_up.