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Import and Solidify STL - Cannot solidify STL with more then 2000 faces
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Petre  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, November 11, 2014 1:13:09 PM(UTC)
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Hi all,
Does anyone know how to import a STL file and make the model available for further processing such as meshing together with other geometrical forms?
I was looking into Solidifying the imported STL model, but I am getting an error message saying that cannot do that for more then 2000 faces. I've tried to simplify the STL with ViaCad unsuccessfully
Thank you for the hint
Petre
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#2 Posted : Thursday, November 13, 2014 5:47:17 PM(UTC)
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Change the object type to faces, select the faces and stitch to solid.
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#3 Posted : Thursday, November 13, 2014 5:53:39 PM(UTC)
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The solidified .stl will interact with solids. Surface Booleans are in VCP and Shark.
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Tim Olson  
#4 Posted : Friday, November 14, 2014 1:51:48 PM(UTC)
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>>Does anyone know how to import a STL file

I created a video (snowflake) showing how to convert a STL file to solid using ViaCAD.

http://masterviacad.com/page7/page7.html

The default stitcher has some issues when converting STL facets to solids which resulted in the limit. I believe in a later build this was upped to 3k facets.

Encore recently licensed another stitcher to augment the ACIS stitcher which handles larger less precise facets. This will be released in the PowerPack plugin.

http://masterviacad.com/powerpack/page9/page20/page20.html

Regards

Tim
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