- Mesh enabler solid output from stl inventor manual#
- Mesh enabler solid output from stl inventor software#
I did receive an offer of help from a group member so thanks again for that. Still, I think my previous question has merit - why do you need that shape in your solid modeler? Maybe we can find an easier and more effective solution if you elaborate your specific situation a bit. Or to elaborate: while it is certainly possible to recreate an object in solids based on meshes (which is what your scanning bureaus do), it is virtually impossible to "convert" it in a standard way like converting video or audio formats, which is what I thought you were asking about.Īnd no, I haven't used a scanning bureau myself, but I do 3d modeling for a living, so I usually try to help with 3d related subjects here on the forum. I hope that clarifies what I meant in the first post. Yes, it's "possible" but on a limited number of scenarios, and no, there is no easy way of doing it.
Mesh enabler solid output from stl inventor manual#
In contrast, a face like on your link would require two dozen or so carefully placed surfaces to recreate (which isn't really that bad), and nonetheless somebody must have put some manual labor into it. While you can easily model something like that, or 3d scan it, there is no way to do it in solids, since it would require hundreds of thousands of surfaces, which (unlike a polygon which has only 3 vertices to it) have loads of data describing them. Organic shapes are a different beast entirely.
engineering! So it's a particular kind of objects which are suited for solid modelling anyway, which makes it all a bit easier. And reverse engineering is mostly used in. But you still have to model most of the stuff if you want it to be any good. It doesn't depend that much on polygons (since a flat plane can have 100k polys) but on the features. I think even SpaceClaim can maybe do something like that.
Mesh enabler solid output from stl inventor software#
There is reverse engineering software out there which enables you to use an scanned meshes as a base point for solid modelling.