Mac: Open the "File" menu, and then click "Document Setup."Ĥ. PC: Open the "File" menu, and then click "Print." Note: The scalable edges are those aligned with the axes.ģ. To select a standard view, open the "Camera" menu, point to "Standard," and then click one of the views. Select a standard scalable view: Iso, Top, Front, Right, Back, or Left. To turn perspective mode off, open the "Camera" menu and click "Perspective" (so that a check mark is not displayed next to it).Ģ. Switch to paraline mode by turning perspective mode off. Anyway these are good news because this means that it is possible to go on with Blender.1. Many thanks Ikari, explained this way I understood it perfectly. The threading is quite delicate and there might be issues due to printing resolution. But a correct size alone will not guarantee that it will fit correctly. So yes, you seem to be on the right track with the adapter’s size. The stp version of that file shows the object’s dimensions as 35,98 x 35,98 x 9 mm. This requires that the program or exporter the model originates from applies the scale This would not be possible if it was arbitrary. This means that you can easily “backwards engineer” the correct scale. If it was made in inch you have to do the same with 2.54. If the model was made in cm and is 3cm wide in the original program but Blender imports it as 3m wide object you simply have to scale it down to 0.01 and apply the scale. You can check what unit system the program used in which the model was made or exported from. This might be, like IS explained above, 3 cm, 3 inches, 3 something elses.
The file holds values where a vertex is placed. If the scale isn’t exposed in the target application, could still use whatever model scale and adjust unit scale for export to get the correct dimensions, or just scale the model itself (and apply scale). When switching to metric, it defaults to 1BU = 1m with unit scale of 1. Dimensions aren’t arbitrary when interfacing with the real world.īlender Unit is the default unit in Blender. Turns out, Stl file format doesn’t include scale (multiplier, percentage) nor unit in the file so if the target application has scale value exposed, one could choose whatever scale to end up with correct dimensions. It’s all in the interpretation of nameless units, which could be anything from nanometers to parsecs. That’s what JA12 meant by “scale is arbitrary”: On export to stl those “Blender units as millimeters” will again revert to nameless “units” and will be interpreted by your printer as it sees fit. So, you just define for yourself that 1 BU = 1 mm and model your accessories. If it also happens to use millimeters, it might be favourable to just keep the object’s size after the import and work from there.
SKETCHUP PRINT WONT LET ME PRINT TO SCALE SOFTWARE
Now, the only thing that matters is: What does your printing machine’s software use as base unit? SketchUp seems to use millimeters as base unit, so the object came in correctly as 36 x 36 x 9 mm = 3.6 x 3.6 x 0.9 cm. For Blender the base unit is Blender Units = meters, so the object came in as roughly 36 x 36 x 9 meters. The stl file just defines the size of the adapter as 35,98 x 35,98 x 9 “units”. Other than that it doesn’t really matter if the object is in “real world size” in Blender. But now it is very very small, lost inside the cube… To have a confirmation I would like to measure the diameter of the hole.
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