Units of design

[joestefano 6]

Why can’t cura open a model in the units it was designed in? I design in inches using fusion 360 but have to use a plug-in to convert it from mm after I open it.

[GregValiant 1,264]

Let me start by saying I am an American and it's all inches, feet, gallons and pounds here.

Cura can open a model drawn in inches just fine.  Open the file, select the model then select the scale tool and scale it to 2540%.  If you bring in a 25mm cube calibration block you can scale it to 1.016 and make it an inch.  After that the size doesn't really come into play since there isn't any way in Cura to actually measure anything any way.  If you find it easier you can scale the model before you export it from Fusion.  I have no idea if that's what the Fusion plug-in does (I'm still in Mechanical Desktop) but that would seem to be an easy way to do it as well.

 

[MarkT 1]

Plugin:

[nallath 1,122]

Because STL doesn't have units to load. 3mf does have it, so if you use that it should work.

[joestefano 6]

Thanks for the reply’s. I only asked because when I open a model in S3d it opens in the units it was created in. No scaling or plug in needed