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Importing OBJ files -- Always in Centimetres?

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GC80

GC80
Posted: 14 October 2011 12:00 AM

Total Posts: 2
Joined: 05 October 2009 12:31 PM

I want to import an OBJ file exported from 3ds Max (in which one unit represents one metre) into Maya 8.5.

However, if I have Maya set in Window -> Settings/Preferences -> Preferences to use metres as the working unit, the mesh seems to be scaled down by a factor of 100, as if the co-ordinates in the OBJ file are taken to always be centimetres irrespective of Maya’s settings. Is there anyway to import an OBJ file such that the co-ordinates within it are taken to be metres?

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