working with .stl scans?
working with .stl scans?
(OP)
I'd like any help you can suggest, about working with scan data, the scans come as .stl, but are not really selectable or manipulative, is there any way to extract workable faces, or edges etc, or create solids from them?
Failing that could they be requested in a different file format?
Failing that could they be requested in a different file format?





RE: working with .stl scans?
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
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RE: working with .stl scans?
Edit -> Surface -> Refit Face...
...where you first construct a surface about the same size and general shape as the faceted body and then using the above function, you map it, by imposing the shape of faceted body, onto the surface.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: working with .stl scans?
John, I had a quick play, it seems to work easy enough, if i map my surface to the scan,will it take on the inaccuracies of the scan, if so do i just modify the settings within that command, or is there better ways of smoothing the shape?
RE: working with .stl scans?
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: working with .stl scans?
RE: working with .stl scans?
The problem is that STL files occasionally LOOK good enough that you'd dearly like to believe that they could be somehow used directly. I myself have struggled with that sense of cognitive dissonance. By all means write the ER. I doubt that you'll be the first in line.
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
Nil Desperandum illegitimi non carborundum