Hi everyone, and Happy New Year!
This is my first post to the forum, so I'm happy to be here, and I'm sure will learn from you all!
I'm pretty much a 3D printing newbie, so consider yourself warned. Lol. However, I'm very experienced on the modelling side of things, working in Maya for over 12 yrs.
So, I'm running into a very frustrating problem. I've opened an .obj file in Cura, scaled it to 140mm long, and on my Creality Ender-3 it actually prints at about 28mm long. Which is, oddly, 1/5 of the size it should be! I've changed absolutely no settings in Cura that would affect scaling to my knowledge, and I've followed the exact same exporting procedure from Maya that I did for the previous print, which scaled properly. Being a graphic artist/designer and modeler I obviously would love to create my own objects for printing, but this issue has me at my wit's end. Here is the object I'm trying to print, as seen in Maya.
Here are the things I've tried thus far to no avail:
- Scale the object up or down first in Maya before exporting
- Convert it to .stl and then open in Cura
- Attempt to "trick" Cura by scaling everything up, (printer dimensions and all) by a factor of 5. This only caused the nozzle to move off of the bed!
If anyone at all could offer some help I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks in advance,
-Andy