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Topic: software issues. Help

So I am pretty proficient at 3D printing now, and had to replace my laptop that I print off of. I drew something in sketchup, sent it to Repetier and it loaded it microscopic size. I checked sketchup and it measures correctly. I loaded the file on my desktop and it also loaded tiny. I drew a 150mm cube, sent it to repetier on my laptop and it appears to be 8mm instead of 150mm. I tried drawing a 150mm cube on my desktop, sent it to Repetier and crap it did the same thing. Just for kicks I loaded a previous g code file and it is fine. What have I screwed up? I attached th 150mm cube.stl

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2 Reply by adrian (edited by adrian 2013-05-10 02:01:12)

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Re: software issues. Help

Try scaling it by 25.4 in Repetier... it sounds like the old inches vs millimetres scale problem with the STL file.

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Re: software issues. Help

Sounds like the typical metric mixup sketchup will do this depending on how you have some settings... just scale it up 25.4 times in repetier.