Hello! I’m trying to understand how I should import stl files to get them oriented as intended. As is they always end up “mirrored” (Y and Z swapped). Importing a .glb behaves as expected, but when importing an .stl, the Y and Z axes are swapped. This is the case for both left and right handed coo…

ImportMesh Orientation

JohnK April 3, 2021, 8:34am 2

Hi @Crispy and welcome to the forum. There is an extensive discussion on this here Permanently change set of axes which you might be interested in.

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