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Units and Dimensions measurement addendum

Units and Dimensions measurement addendum - Meshmixer Tutorial

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Units and Dimensions measurement addendum

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- [Instructor] This is an addendum to the units and dimensions tool for a new feature in Meshmixer 3.0. We have a bunny here, we're going to click on analysis to units and dimensions. And we have our normal tool here. But, in Meshmixer 3.0, we have some new options down here. So set from measurements, set target length, real length, things like that. It says left drag for selected measure. So what we can do is click on, I'm just left clicking on a part of the object right here, where it says Real Length 22. We are modeling right now in millimeters, because we have millimeters up here. And you can actually set things from known dimensions. So, if you know that this dimension on the bunny is actually around 50 millimeters, you can go and click here and say 50 and press enter. And now, everything has been scaled to this bunny. So this is a very, very useful thing to do. For example, if I go to Import from 123D, and go to some of my projects, I can import, you know, maybe this basket that…

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