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Questions tagged [dimensions]

Questions related to dimensions, size or scaling of objects, curves (Graph Editor), viewport, render, image, movie, ...

Questions related to dimensions, size or scaling of objects, curves (Graph Editor), viewport, render, image, movie, ...

Exemples :

  • How to scale my cube?
  • Is it possible to change the scale of my rig without deforming my mesh?
  • Can I scale the rotation of my (beautiful) cube only on Z axis using F-Curves?
  • Importing an OBJ file, my (wonderful) sculpted cube is too big
  • How can I see my 0.1mm cube?
  • Can I save a small thumbnail of my render?
  • Can I change my HD video to a low-res video?
  • Scale settings for exporting to STL (for 3d printing)
  • Set dimensions of a mesh
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Get dimension of selected part of mesh?

is there a way to get the dimensions (bounding-box scale) of a selected part of a mesh? Right now I have to do the following steps to get that information: duplicate the selected part of the mesh part it switch to object mode select the new…
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Show decimal point digits on Dimensions tool

I'm trying to work with precise values in Blender and I found this weird thing where the Dimensions tool only shows the full decimal point value when selected. Now I know I could change the unit scale on the scene properties, but what if I want to…
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Dimensions panel: how to proportionaly get all 3 dimensions entering just one

Is there a way to proportionaly scale an object entering a specific value in only one of the 3 dimensions? Basically I need to "link" the 3 values inside "Dimensions" so if I enter a specific value in 1 the others are automatically…
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Object dimensions

After setting an object's dimensions, how do you maintain the dimensions, but reset the scale values back to 1. For example, I set dimensions to 12' x 12' x 1' feet (imperial), and now I'd like to "freeze" the box so that the dimensions remains the…
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Make a triangle with exact dimensions

In other 3d modeling software I've used, it is very easy to create shapes with specific dimensions. Here is a wedge with angles of 30 (at the smallest angle) 60 (at the middle sized angle) and 90 degrees, drawn in sketchup. How would I model the…
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how to list multiple boxes dimensions in one table? (for wood workers)

if I have kitchen cabinet designed in Blender it consist from multiple boxes with correct dimensions. is there a way to list all parts measurements in one table?
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Bounding Box faces relative to world coordinates

Is there a way to create a bounding box around an object so that, while still being minimal, it has its 6 faces parallel to the (x,y), (x,z) and (y,z) planes? For example, when I rotate the monkey head object and toggle viewport render I get this…
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How can I create a new object by input of dimensions?

I have watched video tutorials how to create a simple rectangular object from a cube and in each it displays DIMENSIONS (x,y,z) in the object properties below Location, Rotation and Scale yet when I copy what I see in those videos I do NOT get…
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Dimension issue

why for this hexagon to be symmetric, the x and y dimensions have to be 2,1 of difference? If I enter the same value for both x and y, the hexagon looses its symmetry: Rotating the hexagon, things results really weird: If I rotate it in edit…
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How to display overall furniture dimensions?

This is a follow-up question. I have enabled "Edge Length" in Viewport overlays, however since the furniture designs I work with consist of many many different parts, enabling "Edge Length" displayed all these parts' dimensions. The end result was…
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Z dimension insanely skewed?

My model shows dimensions of 1.35, 3.9, and 100000000000000000.000000. It looks perfectly fine in my viewport though. The z size is very similar to the other dimensions. I have applied all transformations in object mode. I am clueless what else to…
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"Dimensions" not shown under "Transform" panel

I'm just trying to edit the dimensions of a cube, and I've hit 'N' to open the properties panel, but there's no "Dimensions" that I can edit under this tab, just "Median", "Vertices Data", and "Edges Data". Does anyone know how to get blender to…
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how do I change the dimensions of several selected identical objects - como altero as dimensões de vários objetos iguais selecionados

quando seleciono vários e modifico ele altera só de 1 objeto / When I select several and modify it, it only changes 1 object
Francisco Leonardo
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How to define the diameter to a certain size

I have made a 3d curved cylinder in blender, Inlet diameter of cylinder is certain size, say: 25 meters and outlet diameter of cylinder is say: 7 meters, I want resize or define inlet dia to 0.95 mm and outlet diameter to 0.75 mm, is it possible to…
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Exporting data: looping through objects gets wrong data for very last object

Many thanks to Martynas Žiemys for his answer here: how can I export object position info from blender to text file? which basically works for me, however I have an issue when the very last object prints. @batFINGER helped by pointing out fstrings;…
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