3D files and printing

Colton

I dont use either your printer or program.

however, there should be a way to change units to Inches as I did in the slicer program I use.

Excellent! Yes, I have the scaling going. I found the conversion from really life size to o scale. So something like the pallets were easy to figure out but the elevated track support I’ll have to see what size works best and try to confirm those specs. With 4 pieces in the file I’m assuming they are all the same “scale” in the starting file?

The .stl files can be stored in mm or inch units.   My slicer requires me to select "inch" as an input, otherwise it defaults to mm.  If the model is in inch and imported with default settings, my inch file becomes 25.4 times too small.

That sounds like possibly my issue. Can’t wait to go home and check!

This is one reason why we identify the measurements (MM or inches) for every project in the OGR 3D site.

I see that now! rookie mistake! thanks for that info as i found it on the submission form but not by the downloads.

Not sure what printer you are using, but I find that the free version of Chitubox works pretty nicely and can be set up for many resin printers.  Has a feature that will hollow out a large solid object, you can 'drill' holes for the resin to drain out, and you can add internal cross bracing if you want. Saves a lot of resin.

You can also rescale the whole object easily (using HO models and printing in O for example) or even changing one dimension while keeping the others the same (like shrinking a boiler)

Jim

I'm a Slic3r user myself @Jim Waterman but that slicer sounds like it has some very handy features. I'll have to try it out.