I found a new way to scale STLs in FreeCAD where you don’t need to use the Python console.
Import the STL.
Go to the Part Workbench.
Select the STL in the Model list
Menu: Part->Create shape from mesh…
Select the new part
Menu: Part->convert to solid
Select the new part
Menu: Part->Refine shape
Change to the Draft Workbench
Menu: Draft->Clone
Now you can adjust the scale in the properties window of the clone.
It appears to work but then the program crashes if you try to make a path out of it
I need to be able to scale meshes imported from Blender via .stl
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Worked very well. Thank you so much!
Finally a solution. 🙂 And it’s not only for resizing, but having just stl doesn’t work for many other operations.
Thanks man!
Wow! Thanks for the help!!
How do I make the clone visible? Whenever I draft clone an object, I get an invisible object without the ‘visible’ property…
Hi ! As soon when I try to create shape from mesh, the program is not responding (version 0.18) any ideas?
Thanks!
Program no”t responding” is likely just the program taking really long to make the conversion. One conversion I did took over 15 minutes, but it does finish. I could tell it was working because the CPU fan was running fast!