So I downloaded a model that requires no AMS. Each piece is a separate plate. the .3mf was created on an A1 Mini. I want to make this bigger. When I open the file and import it, plate 1 is the body. When I click it and go to resize, it says it’s alredy like 362% size… another plate says that part is 39%, ect ect… each plate says it’s a different percentage, not 100%. Is there a way in Studio to make it say all of those objects at the current import size are now considered to be 100%, so when I want to resize them I can just click one and go from 100% to like 300%…
This is the model in question.
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Yeah, wouldn’t it be nice if we could CTRL-Click and select each object and then apply a universal scale. Unfortunately, if one CTRL-Clicks and selects all objects, the scale feature as you may have discovered will scale all objects relative to their existing scale. So if obj1=50%, obj2=80% and obj3=40% and one scales 50%, the result is 25%, 40% and 20% respectively.
The quickest way is to use the navigation bar in the left panel like so:
I guess the best way is to just use like the existing % that the model imports with, and on each one if I want to like double it, just take the existing % and x2 it, then go to the next % and x2 it, ect?
I tried selecting an object on the plate and doubling it’s % and even with universal scale enabled, it set all 3 axis to the same %…
You can’t click just one object and make them all scale the same, but you can select multiple objects to be scaled by the same percentage. When you do so, the entire selection always starts at 100%.
For the model you linked, I think you would want to
- Load the original project.
- Select everything, using Ctrl+A, or hold Shift and drag a box around all the objects.
- Open the Scale tool - note that the selection is scaled at 100%.
- Scale uniformly at 75%, 300%, or whatever size will fit your plates.
The new size becomes the new “100%” for the project, so be careful about saving the project. If you do not want all objects scaled, you might need to re-arrange them so that you can drag a box around only the objects to be resized.
The “percent” sizes of individual objects in this project makes no sense at all to me, either before or after changing sizes.
The only way I can think of to force each individual object to be “100%” would be to export all of them as individual STLs, delete them, and then re-import the new STL files. I don’t see a reason to do this.
I’ll give it a try… Thanks.