FreeCAD: Understanding the Scaling tool and how to accurately scale your parts

In FreeCAD we have a scale tool that we can use to create a scaled clone of our model but it's not obvious especially to beginners how this tool works. This video will give you two ways of using the tools.
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[@ladyleni8193]

Scaling with the second method in the other direction is also interesting.

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[@ColinSpencer]

Thanks for this really helpful but I have a question after you have scaled an item how do you then add additional sketches to the scaled item?

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I have watched many of your Workbench videos and was wondering If you would do one on the Woodworking Workbench.

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[@waynefilkins8394]

what does it mean if a solid just won't scale? I scale it and it just stays the same, no errors that I can see

[@TechieSewing]

Thanks, never knew about this tool! I have an unrelated question. If I want to make an angled extrusion, say the left side of the sketch should be extruded 10mm and the right 20mm, with a slope in between. What is the best way to do that? I've been extruding normally that making a plane to cut the extra off, but despite calculating what angle I need for the vertical leg of the right triangle to be my 10mm, I never got it right. In my real life example it was more like 3 and 0.6mm sides.

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I'm guessing from the part that I was scaling that's what sparked your question as the top is angled? Is that the kind of result you are looking for? If you use a part design workflow then you can use a draft. This will angle a face to an angle. Actually, I think the tool exists in the part workbench as well.

[@TechieSewing]

@@MangoJellySolutions Not sure, I had this task for a project and never quite solved it, so I keep thinking about it from time to time. So I'd extrude and then Draft the top face only? I'll try that now. Can't make it work, maybe my shape is too rounded for that to work. I'll ask in FreeCAD Discord then, it's easier there with pictures :) Thank you for the suggestion!