I've created a few shapes that have a critical measurement of 34mm on one part. I made sure Tinkercad was on mm. and set exactly 34mm. I then exported to Replicatorg to print and found out the piece to be 31.5mm, so too small. There are two cylindrical shapes that need to go inside of each other and they are both too small but match perfectly. I've done the calibration cubes from Thingverse and they are pretty much spot on. Seems like there is a kind of a mismatch between Tinkercad .stl and ReplicatorG. I'm baffled about this and would love advice. It's costing too much to print a part and needing to re-scale afterwards.
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Permanently deleted user Hi Naamio,
Can you please send us the URL of that part? I just tried a part with the size you mention, and the STL looks good. It was 34mm by 34mm in Tinkercad, and tried both in Meshmixer and 123D Make, and they measure 34.001mm and 34.002mm. Seems like accurate enough. Not sure if there's an issue with your particular model, so I'd love to see it and understand the nature of the problem.
Thanks!
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Cleared Hi, Thank you for your reply. Here is the part in question: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/aBBKrcq3duq-brilliant-hillar/edit . Hope the link works. As I printed it, the printed finish was exactly 31.5mm on the outer edge as here it is 34mm. The same happened to the other part ( not in the pic ) that is to overlap it. Both too small exactly on scale. Measured the outer edge with calipers from the print.
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Permanently deleted user Thanks Naamio,
I tried your part in same applications and also added Print Studio and Netfabb. All of them return the right size. I tried to install ReplicatorG, but it asks to install Legacy JS, which would conflict with some of my other applications. Not sure which printer you have. I would suggest to try any other of the apps that talk to printers and check it out there too.
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Cleared Hi, will do. I have a Wanhao Duplicator 4S. The ReplicatorG itself doesn't have a mm scale. Or then I just have not found one. That also makes it a big challenging to see where the scale goes wrong.
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