Karl, I don't know why this wouldn't work but I haven't tried it:
Scale your part by about .98, support it, then rescale both parts and supports about the origin to make sure they stay in the same relative position.
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Michael W Miller (michael.w.miller@boeing.com)
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> From: KDenton@williams-int.com[SMTP:KDenton@williams-int.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:47 PM
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> Subject: Supports in lightyear
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> Hello all,
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> I have a part that is bigger then the platform of an SLA500 by > ¼" and need
> to support it. LightYear refuses to do that because the part is larger then
> the platform. Any suggestions? I do not want to split the part so refrain
> from giving that suggestion.
>
> Karl
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