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7.
Press
Enter
to end the grab operation.
8.
Exit the
Edit Mode
(
Tab
).
The cube now sits nicely on the XY plane, but more than that, its origin is also on the
XY plane on the bottom face of the cube. Experimentally
Scale
(
S
) the cube and move
the mouse. Notice that with the cube's origin where it is the scale operation is only
scaling the cube above the XY plane. Undo (
Ctrl
+
Z
) any experimental scaling
before continuing.
It is now time to make the cube unit a unit cube. This consists of simply scaling (
S
)
the cube by
0.5
. Now all the sides of the cube are exactly 1 unit long. A unit cube is
very useful for making precise objects such as a virtual model of an SD card.
1.
Begin the
Scale
(
S
) and press
Enter
to end it without changing anything.
2.
In the
Resize
options in the side bar to the left, edit the dimensions of the
scale operation based on the measurements of the SD card taken earlier.
3.
Change the value of
X
to
2.2
, the value of
Y
to
24
, and the value of
Z
to
32
.
4.
Select the
Object
tab (orange cube) from the properties on the side bar to the
right and rename this cube to
SD Card
.
