Should dimension change with scaling

I have always wondered why they haven't. maybe it just my understanding
of what going on behind the scene, but I would think that you could
write some code so that it would simply take all of the dimensions and
mulitply it by the scale factor that you input.

I could see things getting more complicated if it weren't a uniform
scale. i.e. changing only the X, or Y and not the Z. Maybe one of you
guys might have an simple explination as to why this is.

 

are you scaling the part, or the drawing?
dimensions are independent of drawing scale; if you want to change the
dimensions you need to scale the part.

 

When scaling a part, you are only scaling the mass geometry of the part as
defined by all PREVIOUS features, not the feature definitions themselves.
Otherwise, every time you rebuilt the part, the model would scale from it
previously rebuilt size.

Any feature geometry after the scale feature in the tree, is not effected by
the scale feature.

 

Scaling at the Part level

 

That I do understand, but there shouldnt be a reason why the features
and or dimension coulc not be scaled up and included as part of the
scaling feature. i.e you supress the scale, and the dimension go back
to their original size.

And features based upon the scale would be affected by it if you were
related to it. So it is not and independant function unto itself.