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STL to solid

STL to solid

STL to solid

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Hello all,

I would really appreciate some help and advice. When it comes to bone modelling I can obtain STL file formats of a bone (which I understand is just surface data). From this I would like to make this part a solid model. I have tried using the Scanto3D module in Solidworks, however I can not seem to obtain a solid model, the options seem limited, when I import the STL into solidworks. Does anyone have any more success with turning this into a solid? I know it can be done, because, I found a solid bone model online at the following link:

http://www.3dcontentcentral.com/download-model.aspx?catalogid=171&id=87700#0

I am not sure how this was turned from a bone surface to solid model.

I have attached the STL I am having problems making into a solid model to the following link

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47274064/S032_L_B000_CTA_Femur.stl

Many thanks

RE: STL to solid

When you import with ScanTo3D activated under Tools > Add-Ins, you got to be sure to pick the file type "Mesh types" near the bottom of the file type selection drop down when opening your STL.

The 'regular' STL option will use the standard algorithm, regardless of whether you have ScanTo3D activated or not. As you've noticed, it's very limited.

Anyway, I did the conversion for you and have uploaded the model. It was fun! such a clean STL is somewhat rare, so it wasn't even a pain to make it solid, it had been a while I used ScanTo3D so any excuse to get to use it I'll take, cracked up the Help file and went through the steps... now that's what I call a perfect Sunday afternoon time waster, heck, it beats watching T.V. all day ;)

This was done on SolidWorks 2009 so you shouldn't have any problems opening it up, unless you're on a very old version of SolidWorks.

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