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Units and Dimensions

Units and Dimensions - Meshmixer Tutorial

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Units and Dimensions

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- [Instructor] This video is on the Units and Dimensions tool. I have a bunny that I use with File to import bunny right here. We go to Analysis and Units Dimensions. The bunny pops up with a box around it saying that we have a bunny that that is 51.86, by 50, 39.66 millimeters. This is set to millimeters. Now a very important thing to know is if you want to use inches, or meters, or some other sort of measurement system, this is where you would set it. If I switch this, as an example, into inches. And I'm just going to click that for right now. Now all of our tools inside of Meshmixer, the Overhangs tool, I mean, really anything that uses measurements, will now be in inches. And this is where you set that for this model. Let's just go back to millimeters for right now. Meshmixer uses the up direction as Y. This is kind of different in other 3D modeling programs where Z is the up direction. But Meshmixer, for better or for worse, use Y as this up direction. So that's kind of why you…

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