Hello
Is there a procedure for an .stl file to import into solidworks in order to make a function recognition. or simply take dimensions
I saw a tutorial for catia but nothing for solidworks.
It's of course for a question of laziness because I'm tired of spending my time redesigning the parts that are sent to me.
Hello
Have you looked at the SolidWorks help? It looks pretty complete.
http://help.solidworks.com/2012/French/SolidWorks/sldworks/HIDD_OPTIONS_IMPORT_VRML.htm
http://help.solidworks.com/2013/french/SolidWorks/sldworks/c_STL_Files_(.stl).htm
Where are you stuck?
See also this tutorial in English:
http://www.swtuts.com/?p=427
Hello
All you have to do is open your .stl, and Solidworks will offer you to perform an import diagnosis.
Uh, yes, normally SW offers it automatically from the Pro version (head).
Indeed, the volume generated by an STL is different from a STEP or IGES volume for example !
You can't do anything with it except insert it into an assembly. And even then, without constraints.
Function recognition impossible, not even accessible!
We obviously can't even re-record it in STEP or IGES!
Unfortunately, I think that there is no way out, unless there are bridges to recover a "normal" body. And if it exists, it may pay off.
Copy of the help, possibility to import in volume:
Volumetric body. Attempts to import the data as volume bodies. In many cases (especially in complex models), the resulting volume is unusable and the data is then imported as polygon bodies by the converter. In this case, the FeatureManager authoring tree can contain a Polygon Bodies folder , a Polygon Bodies folder , imported Polygon Features, and Imported Polygon Features.
@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
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
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
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
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
@+ ;-)
@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.
Stupid question: you can't afford to ask your customers for another format?
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.
@+
On the other hand, for me the @opiep27 method is impossible with a triangular mesh stl, which is the majority of stls!