How to convert an STL file to STEP or Part?

Hello everyone,

For the sake of a design I need to convert an STL file to a STEP and then add it back to an assembly.

Here are the STLs I want to convert to PCs.
Connecteur.rar (2.8 MB)

Thank you in advance.
Kind regards

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Hello;
Open your STL with Solidworks then with save-sub, choose the STEP format...

  • I don't really see the difficulty, have you tried?.
    Personal note: I prefer the Parasolid (x_t) format to the STEP format to promote the reconstruction of STLs in volume.
    The second personal note is: why not save them directly in Solidworks format?

Kind regards.

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Yes, sorry, I'm not clear enough in my explanations.

I found ends in STL on a download site for 3D prints, the problem is that it is not possible to download in another type.
And I need this part to add it into an assembly and then print it.

That is why I asked this question.


Your approach leaves me ... Perplexed, but good.
Here is the conversion of your two files to STEP format.


Clips_de_Sangles.zip (51.2 MB)

Kind regards.

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Thank you, but could I know you went about converting them to WWTP?

I explained it in my first post...

  1. I open the STL files with Solidworks.

  2. I'm patient...

  3. I go to File/save as/... I choose the STEP format from the list available.

  4. I wait (a long time) until Solidworks finishes its work.

(note: for security I added a 2' step by saving the STL in SLDPRT format... to re-open them more easily in case of a crash).

Kind regards.

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Hello, I understood the solution but I don't have the solidworks software.

Could a charitable soul convert these 2 files for me please:

Graceful Hummingbird 3D Model STL.zip (81.2 MB)

Hello

here ==> Graceful Hummingbird step.zip (2.8 KB)

Hello @Scofield

Maybe it's only at home but Solidworks tells me " no solid data in file " when I open the zip steps.

hello @Sylk indeed I tried to export several times, the mesh may be too important, I don't see anything in the export options

I'm surprised that one can transform a point cloud format into a solid body (.stp) without having done a point-to-body cloud transformation first.
So not surprised that the step is empty (no body, no step?)

And when I try to export a stp from one of these imported stls, it fails and shows an " unsupported curve type " error...

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great thank you very much