That's a thing I like about trueSpace. It can open STL and work can be done on
it just like its native COB format. Just one problem. It imports STL and some
other formats with the model shrunk so it fist within an 8 unit cube of
whatever the currently selected model unit is. So to get the size r
On 30/06/2020 03:41, Chris Albertson wrote:
Technical an STL is a list of triangles where each vertice is given a
location in 3D space. Circles and curves are all replaced by polygons.
The triangles can be large if the model consists of large flat areas,
but as you say, anywhere that is a cir
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> > From: Chris Albertson [mailto:albertson.ch...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 8:54 PM
> > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] I downloaded the latest appimage
> >
> > It is rare for a CAD program to be able
On Monday 29 June 2020 20:54:19 Chris Albertson wrote:
> It is rare for a CAD program to be able to modify .STL files. In
> Fusion360 there is a way to transform STL back into editable CAD and I
> think Onshape can do the same.
>
> An analogy is that you can edit text with a word processor but
Chris Albertson [mailto:albertson.ch...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 8:54 PM
> To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] I downloaded the latest appimage
>
> It is rare for a CAD program to be able to modify .STL files. In
> Fusion360 there i
It is rare for a CAD program to be able to modify .STL files. In
Fusion360 there is a way to transform STL back into editable CAD and I
think Onshape can do the same.
An analogy is that you can edit text with a word processor but if you take
a photo of the document with your cell phone, the te
On Monday 29 June 2020 16:53:43 Gene Heskett wrote:
> And loaded up the .stl for that half a pulley I tried to make a hub
> for yesterday, but I didn't get a touch off right and it was about
> .5mm too small for the plastic. FreeCAD rendered it nicely, but I
> couldn't get it to measure anything,
And loaded up the .stl for that half a pulley I tried to make a hub for
yesterday, but I didn't get a touch off right and it was about .5mm too
small for the plastic. FreeCAD rendered it nicely, but I couldn't get it
to measure anything, nor modify it in any way.
So I went back to OpenScad an
