Making a stl a solid?

[Cbgstyleshindsbock]

Any way too make a stl a solid In mill

I can make it my stock parameters ok but can't move it anywhere , for later operations

[Thee Rickster ™]

if you can email the file to me I can give it a shot in spaceclaim

I am here for another 45mins

[crazy^millman]

Hum not easily done IMHO. I make my own solids per operations, yes more work, but I get something I know I can work with.

 

STL by its very nature is not exact so getting geometric features quickly and easily is all reverse engineering software's challenge. Though I understand Spcaeclaim is supposed to do a very good job it.

 

Verisurf is a great Reverse add-on but since the STL's out of Verify need to eb a certain way they make getting a solid from it a challenge. It can be done, but is some work.

[GoetzInd]

Have you played around with stock model operations? Use those almost exclusively now.

 

Mike

[Aaron Eberhard]

An addendum to Mike's idea, if you build it into a Stock Model, then your can convert that stock model into a Poly-Mesh that you can manipulate (move, scale, etc). Create that stock model and then right click on it, go to Mill Toolpaths > Stock Model Convert to Pmesh...

[Delcandoit]

An addendum to Mike's idea, if you build it into a Stock Model, then your can convert that stock model into a Poly-Mesh that you can manipulate (move, scale, etc). Create that stock model and then right click on it, go to Mill Toolpaths > Stock Model Convert to Pmesh...

 

That is so awesome! I guess I should read documentation more because I never knew about that capability. I'm happy I know about it and mad that I didn't know about it earlier

[Aaron Eberhard]

Glad you like it The real trick is after you move/scale/reposition, you can build a stock model off of that Pmesh, and then do rest roughing ops against it..

[FROZEN]

Anyone notice that the stock models are not accurate. They are different then the stl created by verify.

[GoetzInd]

Anyone notice that the stock models are not accurate. They are different then the stl created by verify.

 

Haven't seen that. There is a tolerance setting. I keep them both at .001 unless it's something really big and my file compare's to the model right on.

 

Mike