Re: Fixing mm or inches

From: Tom Richards (Thoms1991@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 20:05:35 EET


Jonathan, We use SolidView and convert units to inches if we believe they
are in mm as-received and then check the bounding box dimensions with the
designer to be sure. Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Chertok" <chertok22@hotmail.com>
To: <rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:02 AM
Subject: Fixing mm or inches

> List,
>
> Is there a way to "fix" a 3D model in mm or inches?
>
> Also, is a "conversion" simply a matter of changing the UNITS setting in
the
> software - if you have opened the model using the wrong units setting (say
> the vendor opens the model in mm instead of the original being made in
> inches) - or is it more complicated than this?
>
> Finally, does stl file format have some kind of unit definition?
>
> Occassionally a vendor asks me "how big" the model is, can I just tell
them
> to open it in "inches' or "mm's"? Or do you need to communicate something
> like a X axis width or depth?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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>
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