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How to Scale Your 3D Channel Letters using the PrintUP 3D Printing Software (Part 3)

Source: https://softwaretraining.co.za/channel-letter-scale-model (canonical on this live HTML; live file /workspace/channel-letter-scale-model-fresh.html; html lang="en-ZA"; og:locale en_US (also en_ZA); schema inLanguage en-ZA; WP-Super-Cache stamp 2026-08-16 05:16:34; live GET of pretty slug channel-letter-scale-model 200; HTTP Date Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:41:58 GMT). Fetched 2026-08-16T09:41:58 SAST. Published 1 September 2023 (datetime 2023-09-01T11:31:00+02:00 / article published time 2023-09-01T09:31:00+00:00). Site modified 15 August 2026 UTC / 15 August 2026 SAST (2026-08-15T13:17:25+00:00 / og:updated_time 2026-08-15T15:17:25+02:00). WordPress post id 28589. Also known as https://softwaretraining.co.za/?p=28589 (shortlink / wp-json posts/28589 / postid-28589 / html_entry_id_28589 / post-entry-28589 on this URL; not separately re-fetched). Alternate long pretty slug how-to-scale-your-3d-channel-letters-using-the-printup-3d-printing-software-part-3 also printed on this URL (query_vars name; not invented; not fetched). Canonical / og:url pretty slug is channel-letter-scale-model (printed; not invented). Not WordPress id 28588 and not slug channel-letter-rotating-dimensional. Not WordPress id 28587 and not slug channel-letter-move-models. Not WordPress id 28573 and not slug channel-letter-layout. Not WordPress id 28574 and not slug channel-letter-layout-overview. Not WordPress id 28575 and not slug channel-letter-3d-navigation. Not WordPress id 28586 and not slug channel-letters-3d-transformations. Same page as unused avia next named on already-ingested PrintUP Rotate Part 2 (pretty slug channel-letter-scale-model was printed there; not invented; title there: "How to Scale Your 3D Channel Letters using the PrintUP 3D Printing Software (Part 3)"). Live page title is "How to Scale Your 3D Channel Letters using the PrintUP 3D Printing Software (Part 3)".

What this is: One public English how-to page on softwaretraining.co.za, an AM.CO.ZA training-video project. This is AM softwaretraining PrintUP (PrintUP / PrintUp / PrintUp 3D named on this live HTML title, tags, and body chrome; tags also name AM.CO.ZA / AM3D), not UltraPrint and not a third-party RIP. Knowledge on this page is universal and cited to this softwaretraining URL. This page is Part 3 titled How to Scale Your 3D Channel Letters / Scale tool in the How to Move 3D Channel Letter Models using the PrintUP 3D Printing Software mini-series (body Mini-Series points at already-ingested Channel Letters 3D Transformation INDEX WP 28586). This is a part, not an INDEX. This is not Layout Part 2. This fills leftover avia next of already-ingested Rotate Part 2 channel-letter-rotating-dimensional. 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How to scale 3D channel letter models (from this page)

The live page body is short; the on-page "Video Transcript" block is the step source. Raw auto-caption is not copied in full; no transcript invented. Cleaned steps from that live block:

  1. This Part 3 is Scale tool / scaling 3D Channel Letter models and shapes in PrintUP, after Part 1 Move and Part 2 Rotate. The live block names Scale as the third and last transformation tool on the transformation toolbar.
  2. Clicking anywhere with the left mouse button does not scale. You have to pick a scaling point (three on-screen arrows: horizontal / vertical / up-and-down).
  3. Click and hold an arrow with the left mouse button and drag left/right to scale.
  4. Hold Shift while dragging to slow the scale when the default drag is too sensitive (same idea as Move / Rotate).
  5. Uniform scale (enabled on this recording) keeps the whole shape consistent no matter which arrow you drag.
  6. Uncheck uniform scale to warp width, height, or up-and-down independently.
  7. On the information panel, type exact millimetre amounts, or a percentage (the live block uses 50% as the example).
  8. With uniform scale on, a 50% value scales the overall design 50%.
  9. Reset returns scale to the original size.
  10. Recap from the live block: Scale is handy, well thought out, and used often. The live closer also names softwaretraining.co.za search (top right) and the on-site request-a-training-video form if a video is missing.

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