>>Good question. The STL file is somehow scaled wrong or drawn in units of feet >>or even yards or something. Even when I load it in FreeCAD with the units set >>to inches, the part comes out with dimensions like 0.1205 inches on the >>longest side, which is ridiculous.
There are some 'interesting' modeling programs out there that do a very odd job at exporting STL files. I see this time to time with a STL file a student sends me. Since a STL file contains no scaling or units data there is no way to tell how it was exported. A month or so ago a student sent me a file and after some email exchanges they figured out I needed to scale it by 3.7 or something stupid to get it to come out the correct size. Jeff Birt
