Bill -
Sorry for giving you a hard time, but I belong to the school of thought
that says form-Z, or any other CAD system, should never let you make
that kind of mistake. If it doesn't meet the spec, can you really call
it an STL file?
Irene Quinlan
William D. Richards wrote:
>
> Well! My face is sure red over this one!
>
> Basically what happened to the model is I didn't triangulate the non-planar
> faces before I saved it to STL. This results in intersecting STL triangles.
>
> I just threw it up to show that a bolt could be generated easily in form-Z;
> a quick and dirty demonstration. I didn't expect it to be undergoing any
> real inspection. If I had considered that people might put this thing
> through the paces, I would have put a little more care into it to make sure
> that it would pass any muster.
>
> So don't use this to judge the quality of output from form-Z. If anyone
> would like, I can regenerate the items to something more robust. Otherwise,
> I don't want to drop another download on the list members.
>
> <:)
>
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