One more thing about using trueSpace for STL, only work in metric dimensions. It doesn't matter if you select millimeters, centimeters, or meters. To STL they're all millimeters. The different units in the software just work for your own convenience for scale so you don't have to zooooom in. If you're designing something really small, in trueSpace set everything to Meters so the model will fill the screen. For larger stuff work in centimeters or millimeters.
If you set trueSpace to Imperial units what it outputs won't load at the right size in a slicer because of whatever trueSpace does converting Imperial to millimeters when saving to STL. I did one model for 3D printing in Inches to figure that out. The rescale to 8 units issue can cause enlargement as well as shrinking. Create a 2 metric unit cube. Save to STL and delete the object from the scene. Open the STL and now you have an 8 unit cube. trueSpace is a solid modeling program. If a mesh isn't solid then the things that can be done to it are limited. Fortunately it has an Add Face function. Select that and move around the non-solid mesh. When the cursor is over a hole it'll highlight the edges. Click and *poof* it's filled. If it has more than 3 edges it may not be a *flat* face. Sooo, Add Edges. It has its oddities, plenty of them. But I've used it for years and have learned some tricks for modeling while still not coming anywhere near to using its full capabilities. I've mainly used it for modeling, not texturing, rendering, or animation. Version 6.x and 7.x have the Lightworks rendering engine, which at the time it was added to trueSpace at no extra cost, as a plugin for Lightwave the Lightworks engine cost more than trueSpace. I'd love to see some people figure out how to buy trueSpace from Microsoft and make it open source. Would probably have to leave out some of the 3rd party bits like Lightworks but if the open source builds could be installed over the free 7.x release from Microsoft the OS updated files should be able to retain the interfaces to the closed source parts. On Tuesday, July 4, 2023 at 11:34:55 AM MDT, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: On 7/4/23 08:03, Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > Caligari trueSpace can import STL and it can save to a wide range of formats. > If you want to give it a whirl there are a few versions of 7.x here > http://truespace3d.free.fr/index.php/truespace-7-6/ > I use 6.6 since the Model Side of 7.x is essentially version 6.6 and I never > could get into the new 7.x Workspace. It's so different from 2.x through 6.6. > Hmmm, I don't remember if Workspace side has the size issue with importing. I'll look at it, thank you for the link. _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
