Microsoft KB Archive/163984

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INFO: Question: What Is a Softimage Unit?
Last reviewed: February 21, 1997

Article ID: Q163984

The information in this article applies to:


 * Softimage 3D for IRIX, versions 3.5, 3.51
 * Softimage 3D for Windows NT, versions 3.01, 3.51

SUMMARY
A Softimage Unit is primarily a user defined relative scale. If you want 1 Unit to be 1 cm, then 10 SI units = 10 cm, and 100 SI units = 1 meter. Alternatively, 1 Softimage Unit could equal a meter if you so choose. The following are a few exceptions to this relative value:


 * Depth of Field distance in Camera Settings: 1 Softimage Unit = 1 foot
 * Dynamic Simulations: 1 Softimage Unit = 1 meter.
 * Exporting or importing model files to or from other programs may involve default scaling conventions.