Exprting .stl from Autocad trouble

[hoopitz]

The problem is that once I export it from Autocad, and then open up the .STL in my XYZware (XYZ Da Vinci 1.0 Printer) to print, it give me an error that the object is too small and asks me if i want to resize it. Why won't it just read the correct measurements?

[awerby]

Is it in inches when this Korean printer is expecting millimeters? You might try scaling it up in AutoCAD by a factor of 25.4 and see if it works any better. Imperial measurements are something people in the rest of the world don't really think about too much.

Andrew Werby
www.computersculpture.com

[jfkansas]

haha ya, I don't even think about imperial measurements anymore, it is all metric for me. So much easier designing when movements are in .5mm or .1mm increments, instead of .4375, or .0625....