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Rescale World Units Utility 49
types. If several objects are in a selection, the
sum of their measurements is displayed.
Inter face
Text display—Displays the name of the object in the
current selection. If more than one object is in the
selection, M ultiple Objects Selected is display ed.
Lock S el ecte d—Prevents the displayed data from
changing when you change selection. For example,
you might need to select and manipulate another
object that affects the currently selected object.
Objects group
Displays information about renderable mesh
objects.
Surf ace Area—Displaysthetotalsurfaceareaofall
objects in the selection, in units s quared.
Volume—Displays the total volume of all objects
in the selection, in units cubed. Note that objects
w ith "holes" caused by missing faces can result
in inaccurate volume values. When an object has
one or more holes, an asterisk appears beside the
Volu m e n u m b e r.
Cent er Of M ass—Displays the world coordinates of
the location of the center of mass for the object or
thecenterofmassoftheselectedobjects.
Create Center Point—Creates a point helper object
at the center of mass.
Shapes group
Displays information about shape objects.
Lengt h—Displays the sum of the length of all
splines in all selected shapes.
Dimensions group
Displays the dimensions of the object, as they
appear in world space. For example, if it were a
box with the created dimensions of 15 x 10 x 25,
and that box were scaled 200 percent, then this
group would report dimensions of 30 x 20 x 50.
Button set
New Fl oater —Launches a modeless Measure dialog
that displays the same information found under
the Objects, Shapes, and Dimensions groups on
the Utilities panel. In addition, you can expand
the dialog horizontally, in case the values are too
long to b e viewed in the default dialog size.
Tip: WhiletheMeasurefloaterisdisplayed,youcan
viewthelengthofasplinewhileyou’recreatingit.
Clo se —Closes the utility.
Rescale World Units Utility
Utilities panel > Utilities rollout > More button > Util ities
dialog > Rescale World Units
This utility rescales the world units of either the
entire scene or selected objects in the scene.