STL File Manipulation
STL File Manipulation
(OP)
I have a large STL file that has too many points in it. My company is balking at purchasing the upgrade to SolidWorks to work with this file. Is there a free piece of software or cheap piece of software that will allow me to reduce the number of data point in this file?






RE: STL File Manipulation
RE: STL File Manipulation
RE: STL File Manipulation
To my knowledge, the Premium edition does not have any feature, function or module which will affect the file opening capability of large files. That is purely a function of RAM.
RE: STL File Manipulation
RE: STL File Manipulation
The Premium edition has a module called Scan to 3D which is used to import scanned data. Perhaps it is able to reduce the number of faces during the opening phase.
Ask if your VAR would open the file for you.
RE: STL File Manipulation
Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
Dan's Blog
RE: STL File Manipulation
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Charles Culp
Design Engineer - Solidworks User
RE: STL File Manipulation
Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2009 SP 4.1
Dell 490 XP Pro SP 2
Xeon CPU 3.00 GHz 3.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro FX 3450 512 MB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer
RE: STL File Manipulation
http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
Charles Culp
Design Engineer - Solidworks User
RE: STL File Manipulation
Actually, I would consider an stl file to be about as "dumb" as you can get. Well, maybe a wireframe or point cloud.
Certainly a STEP or IGES is usually "smarter" than an stl.