Upverter has a nice STL export ( when it works ) of your board so you can do mechanical modelling for your design. Unfortunately when it gets imported into FreeCAD the scale is 10 times too small.<\/p>\n
FreeCAD as of 0.15 does not have menu item that allows you to scale mesh imports. Luckily the python console can do the scaling of imported meshes.<\/p>\n
First import the mesh ( STL file ) that you want to add to the current design. Select it in the “Combo view->Model” tree on the left of the FreeCAD screen. Then use the python console ( View->Views->Python console ) with the code below to scale it up 10 times.<\/p>\n
\r\nimport Mesh,BuildRegularGeoms\r\nmat=FreeCAD.Matrix()\r\nmat.scale(10.0,10.0,10.0)\r\nmesh=App.ActiveDocument.ActiveObject.Mesh.copy()\r\nmesh.transform(mat)\r\nMesh.show(mesh)\r\n<\/pre>\nNow you should have a correctly sized copy of the STL board that you imported.<\/p>\n
Here is the original post<\/a> on importing and scaling ( I wanted to scale a mesh I had already imported ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Upverter has a nice STL export ( when it works ) of your board so you can do mechanical modelling for your design. Unfortunately when it gets imported into FreeCAD the scale is 10 times too small. FreeCAD as of … Continue reading