{"id":11853,"date":"2025-11-23T04:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11853"},"modified":"2026-01-24T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:55:00","slug":"blender-resetting-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11853","title":{"rendered":"Blender &#8211; Applying The Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were playing with Blender this evening to modify a 3d model to mount the mirror on our Ranger &#8212; it reminds me a lot of learning vim where there&#8217;s just a lot of hidden &#8220;type this character and it does\u00a0<em>magic stuff<\/em>&#8220;. Which, ironically, I love vim because of this &#8230; however I&#8217;ve also been using vi and vim since 1994. So I\u00a0<em>know<\/em> the random character to type. Blender &#8230; not so much yet.<\/p>\n<p>Oddity of the day &#8212; after scaling an object, you need take an additional step otherwise it&#8217;s not <em>really<\/em> scaled and measurements show up with unexpected values. To reset the scale:<\/p>\n<p>Hit Ctrl + A<br \/>\nSelect Scale in Object Mode to apply the current dimensions as the new scale of 1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They call this\u00a0<em>applying<\/em> the scale. Which &#8230; I expected it did when I entered the scale factor and stuff changed size on the screen. But now I know!<\/p>\n<div class=\"CM8kHf j86kh\" data-hveid=\"CDIQAQ\">\n<div data-expression=\"1.0\">\n<div tabindex=\"-1\" data-xpm-copy-root=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP\/\/\/wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-xpm-latex=\"1.0\" data-csiid=\"nsEradb-Kqaf5NoPxJCbYQ_5\" data-atf=\"1\" data-iml=\"1764475295100\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were playing with Blender this evening to modify a 3d model to mount the mirror on our Ranger &#8212; it reminds me a lot of learning vim where there&#8217;s just a lot of hidden &#8220;type this character and it does\u00a0magic stuff&#8220;. Which, ironically, I love vim because of this &#8230; however I&#8217;ve also been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2163],"tags":[2158],"class_list":["post-11853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blender-3d-printing","tag-blender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11855,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11853\/revisions\/11855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}