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Op-ening in millimeter not Inches


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Posted · Op-ening in millimeter not Inches

I think it's also worth noting that it's basically the standard worldwide to model in millimetres. Modelling in inches is bound to cause you some bigger headaches at some point, like if you try to use one of your models with a third party one, due to rounding and such they might not end up at exactly the same proportions.

 

(But fret not, fans of imperial units! Sewing - including things like knitting and quilting - is almost always done in inches in a lot of the world.)

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    Posted · Op-ening in millimeter not Inches

    Well, STL's dont have units. So according to the STL, the design isn't in inches, milimeters or "rijnlandse el". This is also one of the things that makes 3MF a vastly superior format as it does have the ability to store what the unit is.

    So if you export the files as 3MF, Cura will recognize the unit and scale them correctly.

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