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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: campo123456789 on Tue, 05 May 2015, 22:11:57

Title: Using Swill's Plate builder !
Post by: campo123456789 on Tue, 05 May 2015, 22:11:57

Hi Everyone,

I'm currently looking into the process of building my first Keyboard and i cam across Swills plate builder (SO AWESOME!), but when i downloaded the dxf and i opened it into solidworks e drawings and measured the distance of the cut out it was saying that it was 19.05inches not MM is there a glitch in the program or am i just doing something wrong?

Oh and i plan to make it with Gateron switches from mass drop last week but still deciding on the caps as i don't know the layout just yet, (andim trying to make it as cheap as possible really ) ill post my Build guide when i do it!!

i have attached an image of it :)

thanks in advance!!
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Title: Re: Using Swill's Plate builder !
Post by: Charger on Tue, 05 May 2015, 22:31:06

as i recall it outputs without the units and most programs assume it is inches by default rather then millimeters I think there was a post telling people how to change that after they download it as I recall

Title: Re: Using Swill's Plate builder !
Post by: DrHubblePhD on Tue, 05 May 2015, 22:31:45

Yeah you have to default your units.

Title: Re: Using Swill's Plate builder !
Post by: campo123456789 on Tue, 05 May 2015, 23:57:34

like before i open the file? humm ok ill take a look in the preferences

thanks ill let you know how it goes!

Title: Re: Using Swill's Plate builder !
Post by: OverKill on Wed, 06 May 2015, 00:55:43

tools -> options -> document options(tab) -> units

change it to MMGS

Title: Re: Using Swill's Plate builder !
Post by: campo123456789 on Sat, 20 June 2015, 06:43:59

Hey guys sorry to bring this up again. but i have tried and no luck it still give me the wrong units any other suggestions?