{"id":13932,"date":"2016-09-13T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ainslies.net\/?p=13932"},"modified":"2016-09-13T06:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T13:45:00","slug":"scaling-an-stl-in-freecad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ainslies.net\/?p=13932","title":{"rendered":"Scaling an STL in FreeCAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a new way to scale STLs in FreeCAD where you don&#8217;t need to use the Python console.<\/p>\n<p>Import the STL.<br \/>\nGo to the Part Workbench.<br \/>\nSelect the STL in the Model list<br \/>\nMenu: Part->Create shape from mesh&#8230;<br \/>\nSelect the new part<br \/>\nMenu: Part->convert to solid<br \/>\nSelect the new part<br \/>\nMenu: Part->Refine shape<br \/>\nChange to the Draft Workbench<br \/>\nMenu: Draft->Clone<\/p>\n<p>Now you can adjust the scale in the properties window of the clone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a new way to scale STLs in FreeCAD where you don&#8217;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&#8230; Select &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ainslies.net\/?p=13932\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ainslies.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ainslies.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ainslies.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ainslies.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ainslies.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ainslies.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13933,"href":"https:\/\/ainslies.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13932\/revisions\/13933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ainslies.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ainslies.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ainslies.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}