Lathe STL Stock

[Mick]

In lathe V8.1.1 and V9 SP1, I've tried to load stock into Verify as an STL file, but the File button is greyed out. The only material choice I have is cylinder. I cant for the life of me work out what I'm missing, though I have the feeling it is something obvious. Can anyone help? Thanks

[cadcam]

are you ruffing it then varifying then save as STL or just make ing a stl from the strat as your stock file?

[Mick]

I'm using an STL file as the initial stock. I've got a model of the casting as an STL file.

[gcode]

Mick

Have ypu updated to V9 SP1?

STl stock Verify was an SP1 enhancement.

It works fine on my machine.

[cadcam]

Mick I did not try it in V8 but did in lath V9sp1 with know trouble your way and all so making it from varify .

worked reat both ways.

 

I all so like be able to lath a solid in V9.

[Mick]

Ok...hehe....my fault....true, it didn't work in V8 and V9....and I was booted in Win2k...Which had my original V8 and 9 installs. I rebooted in WinXP, which has V9SP1, and voila...it works...although the STL file is misorientated, with the X axis rotated 90 degrees..though it was modelled correctly....

But its late....so I'll look at it tomorrow..

But thanks for your help guys