Keep in mind I believe it keeps as a default when you change that and you may have to go back and return it to whatever units you normally save in.

stl file single select the file you want to open so it is highlighted and down at the bottom there is an Options button, click that and it opens a window, under Units there is an Import Units button, switch that to mm or in depending on how your file was saved out originally. Evan, What I did is when you go to open your. stl was open, I click on the part, then right click, select Convert to Base Feature, I selected output to solid, OK and it was done and worked correctly.Įvan, What I did is when you go to open your. stl came in fine and matched what the customer had. So it sees the 12 as the value and the import doesn't know or care what it is but as soon as I changed my import option to mm the. The customer exported in mm and I imported in inch. I had downloaded and installed the mesh enabler add in for the 2020 version. In today's blog post, we are going to look at the Mesh Enabler. In this series I am going to run through these tools and show how to find them, install them, and use them. I opened a customer model and it looked correct until I made a measurement and it was 12' the real measurement was 0.473 or 12mm. Message 1 of 6 4357 Views, 5 Replies 03-31-2020 08:28 AM Mesh Enabler - Inventor 2021 Hi All I've installed Inventor 2021 pro version today and uninstalled the 2020 version. By Clint Brown Subscription account holders are given access to some really handy tools via the Autodesk Apps Exchange. stl file (inch or mm) when opening the file and change it in your options to match before opening it to keep it at the correct values. Make sure you know what your units are of the. This next comment doesn't really have anything to do with how the Mesh Enabler works other than how you import then use the Enabler: Seems to work fine now after Rocky fixed it up.

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