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  "textContent": "Often we might need to create geometry to fit real world objects that we don’t have a CAD model for. Whilst we might jump to complex 3D scanning methods and more, sometimes a simple reference image, or images, can really help the process. Even more so if we can accurately scale the image. In this […]",
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