quicky scaling questions

Seems like I can't scale an imported model entity past 1000 (thousand). Is there any way to get around this besides importing a larger model? Does the same constraint apply when scaling entities in code? How come I can scale an entity along one of its axes in code, but in WED the scale must be uniform?

Thanks

Excuse me, I see that scale_x,y,z are limited to 100 in the docs. Curious.