Hi all,
I was very excited by the new material made available, so I decided to print icecubes.
I wanted to take advantage of this opportunuty to test unit conversion since I had some problems with my previous model.
So I designed a 1cm3 cube in 3DS Max. As my default unit is mm, I made it 10mmx10mmx10mm.
I exported it as STL file. While uploading it to Shapeways, I specified mm as the unit. And I got an error message :
I went back to 3DS Max, changed the default unit to meter, without modfying my model. The cube was now 0.01mx0.01mx0.01m (and still 1cm3). I exported it as STL file again. While uploading I specifyed meter as a unit.
New error message :
Note that 39.4 inches are 1 meter.
Finally I did a last conversion in 3DS MAx to change the default unit to inch. My 1cm3 was now 0.394"x0.394"x0.394". I save it as STL file. Of course while uploading I specifyed inch as a unit.
This time all was correct.
I did not make any test of "cross-unit" (saying in 3DS Mas that I work in mm and then pretending at the upload that the unit is inch). But, with this experiment, has anyone an idea on how 3DS Max and/or the upload function of Shapeways are dealing with the unit conversion ?
Thanks,
Magic.
PS: I finally give up with the idea of printing icecubes as they seem not to be safe to add in your beverage. :laughing: