I've little experience with STL files, I have a friend with STL file(s) 
of a 1930's Ford, he said it's 'over a million triangles and super noisy'...

Is SWX2006 or 2007 capable of doing anything with such STL file(s)?

Thanks

If you are lucky you can import to SWX and get a graphical image for looking 
at. Very seldom will it knit to solid.

Mike

"WC" <wc@nomail.com> wrote in message 
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> I've little experience with STL files, I have a friend with STL file(s) of 
> a 1930's Ford, he said it's 'over a million triangles and super noisy'...
>
> Is SWX2006 or 2007 capable of doing anything with such STL file(s)?
>
> Thanks 

SW sounds almost worthless then. What would be appropriate software for such an
endevor? Can STL files be "split" into managable chunks?

Thanks

Michael Eckstein wrote:

> If you are lucky you can import to SWX and get a graphical image for looking
> at. Very seldom will it knit to solid.
>
> Mike
>
> "WC" <wc@nomail.com> wrote in message
> news:tdI%g.22505$ta3.12051@tornado.texas.rr.com...
> > I've little experience with STL files, I have a friend with STL file(s) of
> > a 1930's Ford, he said it's 'over a million triangles and super noisy'...
> >
> > Is SWX2006 or 2007 capable of doing anything with such STL file(s)?
> >
> > Thanks

STL is just raw triangles.  Most simpler programs like 3DSMAX and
Blender (a free, open source alternative) can import STL through a
plugin or natively.

>From there you can merge the vertices, flip any inverted normals, and
apply smoothing groups to get something looking like a surface.
Sometimes...  A lot of high density scanned models tend to have gaps in
them.  So you'll have to patch in some faces or flip some edges to get
a continuous mesh.

Blender has thorough documentation on their site and Max has a million
different books written for it, so learning shouldn't be too difficult.

http://www.blender3d.org



WC wrote:
> SW sounds almost worthless then. What would be appropriate software for such an
> endevor? Can STL files be "split" into managable chunks?
>
> Thanks
>
> Michael Eckstein wrote:
>
> > If you are lucky you can import to SWX and get a graphical image for looking
> > at. Very seldom will it knit to solid.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > "WC" <wc@nomail.com> wrote in message
> > news:tdI%g.22505$ta3.12051@tornado.texas.rr.com...
> > > I've little experience with STL files, I have a friend with STL file(s) of
> > > a 1930's Ford, he said it's 'over a million triangles and super noisy'...
> > >
> > > Is SWX2006 or 2007 capable of doing anything with such STL file(s)?
> > >
> > > Thanks

Delcam has a Program Called PS Exchange. It will translate different solid 
models. It says you can veiw the end result and pay per translation. I don't 
know if this helps you.


-- 

Bill
www.partmaker.com




"deimos" <rmiller@kappers.us> wrote in message 
news:1161800971.359533.158690@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> STL is just raw triangles.  Most simpler programs like 3DSMAX and
> Blender (a free, open source alternative) can import STL through a
> plugin or natively.
>
>>From there you can merge the vertices, flip any inverted normals, and
> apply smoothing groups to get something looking like a surface.
> Sometimes...  A lot of high density scanned models tend to have gaps in
> them.  So you'll have to patch in some faces or flip some edges to get
> a continuous mesh.
>
> Blender has thorough documentation on their site and Max has a million
> different books written for it, so learning shouldn't be too difficult.
>
> http://www.blender3d.org
>
>
>
> WC wrote:
>> SW sounds almost worthless then. What would be appropriate software for 
>> such an
>> endevor? Can STL files be "split" into managable chunks?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Michael Eckstein wrote:
>>
>> > If you are lucky you can import to SWX and get a graphical image for 
>> > looking
>> > at. Very seldom will it knit to solid.
>> >
>> > Mike
>> >
>> > "WC" <wc@nomail.com> wrote in message
>> > news:tdI%g.22505$ta3.12051@tornado.texas.rr.com...
>> > > I've little experience with STL files, I have a friend with STL 
>> > > file(s) of
>> > > a 1930's Ford, he said it's 'over a million triangles and super 
>> > > noisy'...
>> > >
>> > > Is SWX2006 or 2007 capable of doing anything with such STL file(s)?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks
>