I turned a .rar file from Turbosquid into a .blend file but it wont append into my scene

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Hey everyone. I am having trouble importing some rails from turbosquid into blender. I unzipped the rar file and now its a replacing the entire scene. I am trying to import into the grease pencil part. Also Im a beginner. Can you help? Here is the file https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-model-railing---balcony-1313285

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You can normally open it with blender. Select the object and press crtl+c. Open the blendfile where you want to import it and press crtl+v.

Not sure what you mean by you unzipped it and it replaced the entire scene. Did you just opened it?

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If you’ve purchased the file from Turbosquid, they will do conversions for you.

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I tried copying and pasting it, but it wont let me scale. Once i try the pieces break up, and I joined them before.

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Turbosquid will take ages for that at least in my case they did… still waiting.

Anywa, so you can import it but you can’t scale it as a whole? Add an empty, select the whole object you can’t to scale and then the empty. Press ctrl+p and parent it. Now scale the empty and you can also move the object by moving the empty.

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Hey thank you! This works but it turns out the copying and pasting breaks the thing up instead. Any insight on how I can append this because i cant really figure out how to get the whole railing in? I cant seem to append it and when I try and select mesh and its its part the thing is broken up as well/

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Hmm, so your blend file is a 2.69 version, no problem for blender. If you open it, of course it will replace the scene (that’s the way it’s done, even in a simple tect editor). If you try to import it, blender will only import other formats, you have to append it in your scene. Properly blend file → Railing (or badly named cube… have a look for names before while opening it). The vocabulary blender (and sometimes other SW) is using has a meaning, so it would be easier to help if we use the same. :wink:

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I don’t understand what your problem is when you append.

Maybe a tutorial can help

Or the docs
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/files/linked_libraries/link_append.html