Forum: Carrara


Subject: Grid and object size/scale issues ...

YURdigital opened this issue on Jan 06, 2011 ยท 12 posts


YURdigital posted Thu, 06 January 2011 at 6:37 AM

Hi everyone.

I posted this over at DAZ and received one reply.

I was hoping my friends at Renderosity might have some suggestions.

I'm having some serious problems with object size/scaling between the assembly room and modeling rooms.

If I create a spline object and go into the modeling room. Set the Grid at Spacing 1.00 ft and Draw a Line Every 1 then create a very simple object.
Lets say a 1ft x 1ft x 1ft square.
Basically the square I make in the spline modeling room is 1 grid square in size based on my grid settings.

When I exit the modeling room and go back into the assembly room the square is enormous.
Setting the grid in the assembly room the same as listed above the square shows as 12ft x 12ft x 12ft.
The size shown in the Transform tab also shows 12ft x 12ft x 12ft.
If I'm thinking correctly it looks like it should be 12in x 12in x 12in.

Is this a bug or am I being stupid or maybe something else.
I've searched the forums and read a bunch in the PDF manual but haven't been able to locate the answer. I did find some discrepancies in the documentation where it says grid setting are in inches and then a few sentences down it starts talking about the grid being in feet.
Needless to say I'm about to start banging my head into my desk.
Sad

I'm running Windows 7 64-bit and Carrara Pro 8.0.1 Build 45 (64-bit)

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Clint