Forum: Vue


Subject: The mystery is solved!

smallspace opened this issue on Feb 21, 2011 ยท 10 posts


alexcoppo posted Mon, 21 February 2011 at 4:07 PM

Quote - Alex

in that case, how come my models built in Rhino, exported in obj format, import into vue at the CORRECT SIZE? talking huge shop models, so I know they come in exactly right by simply checking sizes in both apps.

:)

Because both applications use the same magic number. I remember seeing a scaling selection control in a DAZ Studio dialog and it had about 6-8 entries. E.g. possible values for metric system are 1 OBJ Unit every 1cm , 10cm and 1 meter; I expect that nobody, unless under the influence of some "stuff" would select anything else, like, e.g. 1 OBJ unit == 1atto parsec (see this wikipedia article).

Anyway, as you are hinting that I am an asshole, please read the official OBJ file specification and see whether there is a single reference to a unit of measure (I did not find any, but being an asshole might explain my failure).

GIMP 2.7.4, Inkscape 0.48, Genetica 3.6 Basic, FilterForge 3 Professional, Blender 2.61, SketchUp 8, PoserPro 2012, Vue 10 Infinite, World Machine 2.3, GeoControl 2