Hi guys,

We have a Z-corp printer that we are wanting to use for printing out scaled down versions of some pretty large assemblies and weldments. Now the bed size is only 236 x 85 x 127mm , so we end up having to scale these assemblies / parts by a decent factor - we have had to do 40:1  at times. the issue we have is that the minimum thicknesses we require are probably in the region of 1-2mm, but when you scale a section of UC / Ibeam / PFC etc by such a large factor you end up with web/flange thicknesses of less than 0.5mm - sometimes much less.

Is there any way of quickly scaling up the thicknesses of everything in a model without losing too much detail? Currently we end up nearly re-modelling the whole item to suit what the printer requires, but our latest project is going to be too large to spend that amount of time as we would be remodelling a very large section of a drill rig.

We have already attempted using the 'bleed' function on the printer to up the thicknesses but that is not sufficient.