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Questions pertaining to measurements in Blender. Real measurements as well as Blender units are acceptable.

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How to zoom into micrometers?

Well, I'm trying to make a really precise and functional 3d model, but it seems like I reached the zoom limit and the grid limit in the milimeters. I'm considering just increase the size of everything ...
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How to set grid size to 1 mm

I have set the Unit to millimetres unit Scale to 0.001 and Grid Scale to 0.01. But still, ...
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Question related to Blender measure tool

Newbie question, I'm afraid ... When enabling vertex snapping, in Solid Display, the Measure tool works ok. I can LMB snap to a start vertex and drag to an end vertex, release mouse button and the ...
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Blender python - set location does not use centimeters

I can update a 3d object position with: some_3d_variable.obj.location = (0, 1, 0) This sets this object in meters i.e. 100 centimeters: This is not what I ...
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How can I set a measurement for one part of my scene, and have everything else scale accordingly, so I can estimate all other measurements in scene?

I am making a mockup of a gallery, and adding a sculpture. I know the measurement of the part marked in red, and I would like to set that mesh as that measurement, but somehow scale everything else ...
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How to exactly measure the angle between two spheres, seen from the world origin?

this seems to be a simple question, still I'm surprised that I couldn't find any really satisfying answer... Supposed, I'm looking from Blender's world origin on two spheres sitting in somewhere the x-...
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Is there any way to select regions of mesh with shadow and measure the surface area of the mesh?

I am trying to quantify shadow on different parts of a mesh at different orientations of illumination. So far all I have found is to outline the shadow manually on the mesh, separate it and use the 3d ...
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Delete all measurements with python

Is there a way to delete all measurements with python? If you have any measurements in your scene you can run this to get the lengths of them, but I don't know how to delete them. ...
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Measure tool: different results with/without snap

as you can see in the picture, I'm getting different results when measuring with/without snap. The last 3 measures do not use snap, while the rest do (either one side snap or two sides snap) The ...
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Fspy: Align photo with existing Mesh

What I've got: An existing mesh of my living room (made with MeshRoom) A few 3D boxes added to the scene to simulate where I'll put a TV stand A picture of the living room. One of the pictures that ...
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Which measuring is the correct one?

Just noticed that the Measure tool on the left and the Measurement of Edge Lengths under Overlays give different results, here - 3.65 and 3.76791. EDIT - something is completely wrong there, just look ...
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How can I scale a mesh based on known distance between its vertices?

I've got a mesh representing my living room. I built the mesh using Meshroom. I ended up with a few things around the bit of my living room I'm interested in. I want to scale the entire mesh to the ...
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Blender Units and Scale

I'm new to Blender and I've followed some tutorials but i cannot figure out how to get the units to be 1 Unit = 1 mm, I have setup the below scene properties and the object has a scale setting shown ...
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How to make MeasureIt hide measurements behind camera

The MeasureIt addon works great when only modelling in a single plane, but when modelling and adding measures to a three dimensional room, the rendering seems to include measurements both in front of ...
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Edges measurement - tool vs edges [duplicate]

I'm really confused about the way measurements are displayed in Blender. At first, I was using the Measure tool from the toolbar, which seem to show the right sizes, but at some random point, ...
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How can I get 'angle measurement' data?

How can I get 'angle measurement' data in python? It's likely different from measureLines.
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How to get measurement data like the distance between two points?

How to get measurement data like the distance between two points? I'd like to display them in addon as name1: 142.354mm name2:236.977mm name3:201.364mm ... thank you.
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How to accurately change the size of my object to a specific size

I created an object and want to scale it to 35cm. Now I am confronted with two problems: I don't know exactly where to set the workspace to metric system and when I tried to add a plane as a reference ...
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Newbie Question: Supposedly Inaccurate Measurements

I tried to make my measurements as accurate as possible, but blender still mucks it up. As seen in the photo, each stair step (tread) is measured as 30cm, so I made a hexagonal prism with a radius of ...
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How can I model with accurate dimensions and without distortions?

I'm new here. I have to model the backrest of the chair based on 2D drawings and bend it in several directions. And I'm completely stuck, I can't find any tutorials to help me with this problem. So ...
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Total length of a complex curve with many points

I'm trying to measure the total length of a complex curve with a large number of points. My initial input is a set of curves from an imported dxf file. I selected the section I wanted to measure and ...
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Is Blender a mess for precise prototyping?

I came across this youtuber's video: "Sì .. VFX è così facile (tutorial Blender)" that translates about "yes, VFX is so easy! (Blender Tutorial)" I started with some Udemy courses, ...
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Any way to show distance between two surfaces (meshes)?

I'm trying to reconstruct a mesh as an SDS, and, frankly, it's a pain. Is there any way to visualize the distance between two meshes? What I'd really like is something that would compute the shortest ...
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MeasureIt Addon > rendered image has blurry measurement lines

Using MeasureIt to add some measurement lines to a 2D floor plan, but when rendering the output of MeasureIt to an image to use as an overlay in the global rendered output, the measurement lines are ...
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measuring the height of a space

I used Polycam to do some 3D scans of a tunnel, a while ago, and I'd like to be able to determine the height of the tunnel at various places in my scans. I can use the Measure tool to draw a line and ...
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How to measure blender camera Dynamic range

I watched many youtube videos about Filmic, but in blender 3.0 it is a little bit different. Are those videos outdated or I get them wrong?? My testing is a grid and double up the light watt each grid ...
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Measuring and setting exact distance between two objects

I need an exact distance of $0.045$ meters between the edges of two objects as seen here: . I can't figure out for the life of me how to: Set the measurement tool's ruler to an exact length of $0.045$...
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How do you change the point of reference measure?

So I want to measure from the corner point which is where the 3D Anchor? is? The one vertex all the way to the bottom left. I want to measure from That to the selected bottom vertex.. How do you do ...
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Adjusting the length of a character leg and arm

I want to know if it is possible to adust specific parts of a character by inserting measurements. For example, i want to be able to change the length and thickness of a character arm by inserting ...
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Measure from the end (fx face) of an array to the the face of another object

How do I make a dynamic measure from the end (fx face) of an array to the the face of another object. Like a stairwaytop to the floor? Where the stairway is an array with a custom property that I ...
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Blender snapping tool

Can one snap the measurement tool to the blender grid? I have tried everything, but have had no luck. Is there a better plugin available on one of the marketplace places to use instead of the default ...
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How can I quickly and easily measure one band in a sphere (or part of a sphere)?

I'm modeling an object to print with a 3D printer. I'm working with a UV sphere and I've removed some bands at the top and the bottom half. What matters, in terms of size, is the band at the top, the ...
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Find intersection between a line and a circle

I'm a beginner in using blender. I have a circular element on top of which is a vertex. I wish to get the location of the intersection of the normal from center of the circle till the vertex with the ...
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Any suggestions on what size to make my animation characters? [closed]

What are the best sizes that an animation character's XYZ scale measurements average? I am teaching myself how to use the Blender app. By default, the XYZ scales are 1.000 but I think that's too small ...
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Measurement in edit mode

I downloaded a vehicle from a source that I forgotten. When I enter into edit mode, the face selected show a lot of measurements which made the view very messy. Please see photo 1 and photo 2. Would ...
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What is the way to undo Object -> Scale -> Apply, so I can see the actual dimensions of an object, and not (1,1,1)?

I'm working through the book Blender 3D By Example, Second Edition. The second major project is a "time machine". One set of steps is to set the scale for objects to 1,1,1. The author states ...
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How do you mark (and measure) the intersection of two lines without adding vertices?

My issue is that I would like to mark and measure the intersection of two lines so that I can run a driver off the resulting measurement. I thought of adding a vertex, however this will cause the line ...
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How to measure the arc of an object

I'm going to modeling a my computer's mouse But I do not know how to measure the actual size in the blender The problem is that I do not know how to measure the arc I want to finally print it on a 3D ...
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measure the area of a model when viewed in 2d

I want to measure the area of a model as if it was in 2d, for example if I had a 3d model of a car how could I measure the frontal area? In this measurement things like the length of the bonnet would ...
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Measuring the distance between an inclined plane and another object

let's just say we have a sloping level, like a ceiling. Then we have objects, like cubes, that hang from the ceiling. I wonder if there is any simple way to see the distance between the roof and the ...
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how to measure angles between two planes?

in this example I want to rotate the angled mesh on the left downwards at the exact opposite angle it is currently making with the flat mesh. is there a built in tool that measures what the angle is?
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how to measure distance of 2 separate objects via select faces

I am struggling to find a way to measure the vertical distance between 2 faces of 2 independent objects so that I can move the target object to the correct print-bed position for printing. The measure ...
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How do you mark spots when you work with the measure tool?

Hello, So I measured this spot with the measure tool and thats exactly where I wanna set a loop cut but as soon as I choose the loopcut tool the measured line dissaperas.. Is there a way to mark those ...
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Accurate wall thickness measurement in Blender?

I have some detailed models I have managed to successfully print at larger scales (20-30cm max height), however the wall thickness in many areas is very thin and when scaled down to much smaller sizes ...
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Measure length in UV EDITOR

Is there a way to have something like Edge length but for UV editor ? I am doing texturing manually in photoshop, and the workflow is that I export the UV layout, open it in photoshop and then I know ...
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How to work with astronomical measurements in blender

I am trying to make a really big sphere (a planet) in blender. But it seems like my view of it is cut off in the viewport. This also results in malfunctions when I export it into FBX. I tried tweaking ...
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What's the easiest way to measure a nonlinear path? [closed]

The measure tool is handy for measuring the distance between two points, but I would like to measure the distance along the surface of a mesh. What I'm doing currently is just measuring several small ...
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Edges of clearly different size display same edge length

I am very new to blender and working on my first model: a bed. I'm trying to model it with real world measurements, but I'm having a really hard time. I'm using Blender 2.93a and have a scaled cube ...
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Length of edges not logical compared to dimension of object

I am trying to create a object with some precise dimensions. Therefore, I need to also know precise lengths from the edges. I found out how ot display them, but the values there just don't make any ...
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How to set correct measurements

I have a floor plan and as per image i have scale the reference image. Started with the elevator 5x5.6 that looks perfect in size marked in red. But with the terrace 6.6x19 feet why it's not matching ...
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