Greg, thanks so much for looking into this. What I know is that the files coming from F360 are loading in Cura at the coordinates where they were in F360 relative to the origin. I can reposition them, but who is deciding that is where they should be?
I tried trashing and reloading Cura, but no improvement. I will next try trashing all the support files. I also noticed that Cura is giving me gibberish in the menu popups. Must be something wrong somewhere.
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Typically an STL file has no location data in it. Cura would bring it in at the center-of-geometry and place the bottom face on the build plate and the XY center point at the build plate mid-point. I have noticed on occasion that when I open an STL in something like "MS 3D Builder" an STL may be anywhere. That would seem to indicate that there is some sort of location data in at least some STL files (else they would all come in at the same place?). It may be dependent on the CAD to STL translator.
In the "Preferences/Configure Cura/General - Viewport Behavior" is a setting for "Automatically drop models on the build plate". If it is unchecked then a model might float over the build plate.
If you have the Mesh Tools plugin loaded then under "Extensions/Mesh Tools/Mesh Tool Settings... is "Randomize Position On Load". If that is turned on it will...(sigh)...randomize position on load.
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