ALTERING STL FORMATTED PARTS
ALTERING STL FORMATTED PARTS
(OP)
I often receive STL files to build parts on a 3-D printer. Many of the parts are bottles or some type of closed vessel. It would be good if I could split the parts in half and build the bottles as halves, so I don't have to go and fish out the support material from inside of the built part. (of course this would be easy if I had the native part file, but that doesn't often happen...I just receive the STL file).
I open the STL files in SW but have not figured out a way to split them in half....or remove half of the part. Can this be done.... ??
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
John
I open the STL files in SW but have not figured out a way to split them in half....or remove half of the part. Can this be done.... ??
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
John






RE: ALTERING STL FORMATTED PARTS
To answer you question, Using a plane with the split feature, or extrude cuts and configs would be the way to do this with a solid. If you have a surface or surfaces I would use the trim function with configs.
On the fairly cheap end: Rhino3d (full functional demo)and Okino-Polytrans are good polygon modelers that will split your bottles with a plane, and can do a hole fill on the open boundries.
I use Delcam Trifix module in CopyCad for this. There are plenty of more advanced poly modelers out there.
RFUS
RE: ALTERING STL FORMATTED PARTS
Do some hunting on polygon modeling and editing tools. There is a lot out there.
RE: ALTERING STL FORMATTED PARTS
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Good luck. Please post back if you find a good solution. This is something I would be willing to pay for (software) if it's reliable.
Jeff Mowry
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