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My 3D-printed parts come out tiny in Cura. How do I scale them?

Short answer: The parts were drawn in inches. Scale them by 2540% (25.4x).

Original thread: “How should the proportion of 3D parts be?” in mePed Hardware

Question · overlok · Jan 2019
Hi,
I have 3D printers and I want to print parts. i open files with Cura but they are looks very small. What should i do?
For example:
Ekran Resmi 2019-01-14 11.26.26-01.jpg
Ekran Resmi 2019-01-14 11.26.26-01.jpg
Answer · spiercemePed team · Jan 2019
Hello,

The parts were drawn in Imperial Units (Inches) and most 3D printers use the Metric System (mm). The parts will need to be scaled to 2540% or 25.4 times the size you're seeing in CURA.

Thanks,
Scott Pierce

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