how to export your grease pencil animation to video

Blender has been chosen to read STL units as 1 meter because it's probably what most other programs use and it's very likely that at the time the STL importer and export was introduced, 3D printers were a very niche product.Īs for why changing your units size in Blender to millimetres doesn't help is because if it did change the size of the final STL, you could face loads of issues when collaborating on projects as all these different objects, all from the same program, have completely different scales. The issue isn't with Blender, it's to do with the fact that STL files don't have units built in and the program opening it determines how large things should be. If you import a STL into a game engine, it reads the STL unit is probably 1 meter. If you open it into most 3D modeling programs, an STL unit is probably 1 meter. If you import it into a slicer for a consumer 3D printer, an STL unit is usually determined as 1 millimetre. How big an STL unit is depends on the program you're importing it into. STL files contain no scale information, and the units are arbitrary.īecause of this lack of scale, Blender will export your 3D model and map one blender unit (1 meter) to one STL unit. And this is backed up by the wikipedia article for STL files: (file_format) (from memory i might be wrong)Īs this comment points out, STLs don't support units like meter or millimetres. STL if i remember dosn't support the scale.

How to export your grease pencil animation to video