STL Rotation

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marcin_ose
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STL Rotation

Post by marcin_ose »

I'm trying to rotate the nozzle for a 3D printer cooling fan:

https://github.com/OpenSourceEcology/3D ... nozzle.stl - system info below.

Is the STL rotation buggy? It allows me rotation by a single angle for any of the 3 axes. However, trying to do a second rotation resets the object location to the original, so it is not possible to make 2 consecutive rotations around 2 different axes.

I found a workaround - exporting the STL after the first rotation, and then doing the second rotation in a new document.

Is there a better way to do this?

Marcin

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Re: STL Rotation

Post by sgrogan »

marcin_ose wrote: Thu May 31, 2018 9:25 pm Is there a better way to do this?
2 ways
1) tick the "Apply incremental changes to object placement" box in the placement dialog
2) Use Euler angles

https://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/Placement
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