@Lucas
Personally I tried to open a .stl and there is no body. Neither volume nor surface. There is only one line "STL1 Graph" corresponds to the 3D "image" of the volume.
A question of option to tick?
See attached image
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Maybe the beginning of an answer here but I can't play the video.
https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/54694
Happydad: this is the video I posted last in my first message! But in fact you have to download MeshLab in addition.
Benoit.If:
I haven't tried, but you're doing well:
"Select the STL (*.stl) or VRML (*.wrl) format from the Type list , and then click Options."
There is a tutorial on Lynkoa to transform an STL into a Catia file here: http://www.lynkoa.com/store/fr/tutos-formations/formations/transformation-de-fichier-stl-en-fichier-surfacique-catpart.html
Maybe it's possible to modify it a little to adapt it to SW?
Then, once the file is usable in STEP (or equivalent), the recognition function should be launched.
Little info: In view of this subject: http://www.lynkoa.com/forum/3d/transformer-un-fichier-stl-en-step , it may be possible to contact Frederic HUMBERT so that he can make the modification and possibly explain the manipulation...
Good luck
@Lucas Oops sorry I didn't see your link
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Without ScanTo3D, there is no salvation...
By default the import of an STL gives a graphic body, in the complements of the premium SolidWorks (and pro I think) there is a module called Scan to 3D, this adds in the file types the ability to open mesh or point files and adds mesh transformation functions... To do this, you have to right-click on the mesh to access the functions...
EDIT: I checked and you need a solidworks premium license to have scanto3d
Function recognition (creation of a function tree from an imported body) is available from the professional
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/products/3d-cad/3d-cad-matrix.htm
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I just tested opening the .stl with the 3 options.
Only the graphic body works because I have an error message on the number of surfaces to be processed for the others.
There may be something else because of the origin of the file made under bender
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To my knowledge and via the # fofo you are in the doldrums
it is only a graphical representation and will block on the number of faces to be processed
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@Fab I'm in the premium version I'll try
@fabrice_A: 3D scan does not change anything for the stl file. Unless I missed an option.
On the other hand, cf: http://grabcad.com/questions/tutorial-how-to-edit-stl-file-imported-into-solidworks
With the option that goes well you get a part.
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Stupid question: you can't afford to ask your customers for another format?
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In cases where SolidWorks can't do it, maybe the video method of my first message can work, but you have to download MeshLab in addition (free):
@opiep27 I don't understand the remark? There is almost no option to import an STL file with ScanTo3D by merging meshes, units, texture import
In file open you should not take *. STL but Mesh Files... and to have Mesh Files you need ScanTo3D.
@SEPM. Gerald:SW 2013/14 otherwise there is a way to provide me with the STL file .? I will see what can be done.
Hello
@Fabrice_A is completely right, without Scan to 3D, it's impossible to do anything with STL which is a mesh file (you just have to display the shaded plus edge mode) to realize it.
So scan to 3d allows you to make real surfaces from your meshes (smoothed, swept, cone, flat sphere, ) which will allow the end of the end to have a solid.
Be careful, if the shape is relatively simple, it is still much faster to recreate it.
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On the other hand, for me the @opiep27 method is impossible with a triangular mesh stl, which is the majority of stls!
What Wiki says
The STL file format is a format used in stereolithography software . This format was developed by the company 3D Systems. This file format is used by many other companies. It is widely used for rapid prototyping and computer-aided manufacturing. The STL file format only describes the surface geometry of an object in 3 dimensions. In particular, this format does not include information about the color, texture, or other usual parameters of a computer-aided design model.
See below
http://www.3deefab.com/fr/faq/viewers
http://www.3dtranslate.com/caracteristiques-fr.html
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@benoit. Yew
The other formats are OBJ and 3DS. So the same. Designate him work under bender
@Coyotte The shape is not simple at all because it is an STL of an assembly
For less mystery it's a luxury headphone, whose components I have to redesign to make the "mechanical connection"
Let's say that for all the pieces I didn't have any problems because I only had the external shape as a constraint of which I was given the dimensions to respect and I had free rein for the rest. But my big problem is the headband. I have no usable odds. No bending angle and I have to go for a model designed under Bender to make the measurements.
I think the easiest solution will be to train myself on this software to try to get something out of it.
I attached the rendering of what I redrew
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Given the shape I think that with scan to 3d as Fab said it won't break any problem, once imported you just have to use the mesh and then surface assistant
Hello
In view of the shape and especially at the level of the headband, Scan to 3D would be perfect, it will be perfectly capable of recreating the appropriate surface shapes.
Practice on a tutorial and try to reproduce it on your form.
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It's beautiful............it's super nice
why not ask Fred nicely
if it can convert it to you under Catia and it sends you back a compatible file
catia SW it works pretty well in my knowledge
but it's in surface area from what I could understand
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