Is there a way to scale entire drawing + include textures?

[Andy Broomell]

I'm using the Scale Objects command to scale down a 3D model which was built in Vectorworks. I'm intentionally checking the "Entire Drawing" checkbox. 

 

Unexpectedly, this does not scale texture definitions as well, so now all of the surface textures are disproportionate to the objects. Is there another approach I could take that would also scale textures? (I'm guessing not but I figured I'd check).

 

Currently I'm going into every single texture definition and scaling down the "Size" by the same scale factor as I did the drawing, but this is tedious.

[michaelk]

@Andy Broomell 

 

If you really mean to scale every texture in the drawing I think this script will take care of that:

PROCEDURE ScaleTexture;
{Badly Scripted by Michael Klaers}
{12 February 2022}
{This script will ask for a scale factor and 
ruthlessly scale the size of ALL -as in EVERY- 
texure in the resource browser of the file.}




CONST

CR 				= CHR(13);
kTexture		= 97;
kFolderIndex	=	0;
ksubFolderName	= 	'';

VAR

h: HANDLE;

numItems, TexIndex
: LONGINT;

i
: INTEGER;

TexName, MessText
: STRING;

TempReal, ScaleFactor
: REAL;

PROCEDURE WakeUP(hh:HANDLE);

	BEGIN
	ResetBBox(hh);
	END;

BEGIN

	ScaleFactor := RealDialog('Texture Size Scale Factor: ','1.0');

	TexIndex := BuildResourceList(kTexture,kFolderIndex,ksubFolderName,numItems);

	FOR i := 1 to numItems DO
		BEGIN
			TexName := GetActualNameFromResourceList(TexIndex,i);
			h := GetObject(TexName);
		
			TempReal := GetTextureSize(h);	
			
			SetTextureSize(h,(TempReal*ScaleFactor));
			
			
		END;


		ForEachObject(WakeUP, ((T<>LOCUS)));


END;

RUN(ScaleTexture);

 

[Andy Broomell]

14 hours ago, michaelk said:

If you really mean to scale every texture in the drawing I think this script will take care of that

 

Oh wow, this is perfect!! Thank you! This will save me lots of time this coming weeks.

[michaelk]

Glad it's helpful.  😃

 

Just be careful.  The script doesn't care if a texture is even used in the file.  It just bulldozes every texture it can find.