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Can someone help me fix this model? It is simple - yet very broken.
david_no_thanks
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Hi all,
I made this slingshot model a while back. It is heavily inspired by another's design called the Bean Flip made by a company. I don't know what happened with this model. It is supposed to be some 85mm in width. However, in onshape, it is in the thousands of millimeters. It exports at 1/2 a GB currently. "Just scale it?" you may say. Welp, I tried that and the exported model is broken when imported into a slicer. I don't recall how I was able to scale it - once - last year for 3D printing. It has been awhile. But I did manage to and made one for testing. It is a really fun and functional slingshot!
I want to share it with others for free. However, I can't get a sound export to do so. For example, Cura will say to fix the model. I don't know what to do here. Even the model I managed to scale fails on other people's computers and or software. If anyone is interested in helping with this please let me know! I'm glad to share editing permissions for the document etc. I just want to share this model freely with other who like to shoot slingshots.
Thank you!
See the distance between points over there ——>
Answers
No wonder you're playing with scaling. The values were started in meters instead of millimeters. There is no need to scale individual parts and sketches. The parts can be group selected for scaling with out the sketches. Or start fresh with units set in mm.
Yes. It was an oversight to say the least. I don't know how to correct it.
Sorry, but I do not follow your suggestion here.
I tried to scale them as parts - if that is what you mean. I think it took about 10+ scale events in the left pane to get them as small as desired. With scaled as such, I had a broken export STL. Maybe I'm not doing that right. Something seemed off. 10+ events?
"Or start fresh with units set" This is not an option for me. I am not willing to do it all over again.
In here transform 10 scales all the parts at once.
See Part Studio 2. A fresh start that took a few minutes(about 15 minutes and a cup of tea) with no scaling. Way faster then trying to fix what was there.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/b130ca963931bb0c1bdd7c6d/w/0e818b99d456dac88bfd171f/e/4c576b0784650ef08d005a7e
The learning center (although it may take a while) is still faster than speculating your way through. Still come back and ask questions. Lots of folks glad to help out.
https://learn.onshape.com/