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bjorn
 

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Hi Doug,

How did you scale? In Cura? I went through all menues but cannot find any such opportunity.

I would love to learn how!

Bjorn.


On 2017-06-23 17:33, Doug W wrote:

Mike,
I printed the VFO knob in PLA and it fits great.? Thanks for drawing it.? I haven't progressed past tinkercad.com for designing.

Bjorn,
I use Cura too.? I just scaled the object by 25.4 to convert the dimension and it worked perfectly.

bjorn
 

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Yes, I have been using the customizable knob. Downloaded the OpenSCAD file. Works great.

Thanks

Bjorn


On 2017-06-23 17:50, martin Fraser wrote:

here try this?
its easy and works great
bjorn
 

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Did you try OpenSCAD?

I found it very easy to learn.


On 2017-06-23 20:21, Michael Hagen wrote:

I wish there was a good drawing program that was reasonable to learn!

What a learning curve.

I can make the knob shorter (less depth) real easy, let me know what you want?? It is just changing an Extrude Value.

The ridges around the outside cause me lots of manual editing because when I copied the pattern, it kept causing extra segments.

The cad program complained and would not close a sketch.

I will figure it out next go-around.

I am glad someone got some use out of my files!

Mike, WA6ISP



On 6/23/2017 8:33 AM, Doug W wrote:
Mike,
I printed the VFO knob in PLA and it fits great.? Thanks for drawing it.? I haven't progressed past tinkercad.com for designing.

Bjorn,
I use Cura too.? I just scaled the object by 25.4 to convert the dimension and it worked perfectly.


 

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:22 am, bjorn wrote:

Hi Doug,

How did you scale? In Cura? I went through all menues but cannot find any such opportunity.

I would love to learn how!

Bjorn.


I scaled in Cura.? I am using an older version, 14.09 so this may not be how it works in the newest version.? After you drop your object on the platform, click on it.? You should now see three icons on the bottom left of the platform.? The middle one is scale.? Click it.? In the box that opens make sure you have uniform scale locked by clicking the padlock closed.? This will apply your changes to X,Y and Z.? Now that your scaling is locked you can enter a multiplier in any of the top coordinate boxes overwriting 1.0.
bjorn
 

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Ah, thanks a lot! I never thought of clicking on the object...


On 2017-06-23 20:37, Doug W wrote:

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:22 am, bjorn wrote:

Hi Doug,

How did you scale? In Cura? I went through all menues but cannot find any such opportunity.

I would love to learn how!

Bjorn.


I scaled in Cura.? I am using an older version, 14.09 so this may not be how it works in the newest version.? After you drop your object on the platform, click on it.? You should now see three icons on the bottom left of the platform.? The middle one is scale.? Click it.? In the box that opens make sure you have uniform scale locked by clicking the padlock closed.? This will apply your changes to X,Y and Z.? Now that your scaling is locked you can enter a multiplier in any of the top coordinate boxes overwriting 1.0.

Vince Vielhaber
 

I'm running 2.6 and the only difference is there are now five icons having to do with the object. The second one shows two vases (if that's what those things are), one large and one small. That's the Scale icon. There's no badlock but there is a checkbox for Uniform Scale.

Vince.

On 06/23/2017 02:37 PM, Doug W wrote:
On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 11:22 am, bjorn wrote:

Hi Doug,

How did you scale? In Cura? I went through all menues but cannot
find any such opportunity.

I would love to learn how!

Bjorn.


I scaled in Cura. I am using an older version, 14.09 so this may not be
how it works in the newest version. After you drop your object on the
platform, click on it. You should now see three icons on the bottom
left of the platform. The middle one is scale. Click it. In the box
that opens make sure you have uniform scale locked by clicking the
padlock closed. This will apply your changes to X,Y and Z. Now that
your scaling is locked you can enter a multiplier in any of the top
coordinate boxes overwriting 1.0.
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