Op-ening in millimeter not Inches

[John-5744 0]

Cura Enterprise 5 is opening .stl files in millimeters when the design is in inches.  How do we correct that?

[mrender 26]

Unless there is a plugin for automatically scaling available somewhere you are stuck with manually scaling each time.  As far as I'm aware Cura only works in mm.

[ahoeben 1,963]

The Mesh Tools plugin has an option to auto-scale STLs. But please remember that it will scale all STLs, not just those that you modeled in inches.

[Enigma_M4 120]

What about the "Barbarian Units"-Plugin by @nallath in the marketplace? It converts from inches to mm if needed and selected.

[Slashee_the_Cow 347]

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.)

[nallath 1,123]

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.