Karl;
If you are trying to fix the files after they are made into STL files this is
the wrong approach. We work alot with alias and we always fix the iges files
up in ProE then output from there. Alias has a proE flavour output option I
think I always throw the STL files back to the customer and refuse to try to
fix them. If they want to pay us to fix the iges or step files in ProE I
offer that option. If an STl file has already been produced from the bad data
it is nearly impossibe to fix it correctly without spending a bunch of time
and money. Usually I can fix up pretty much any file in a couple hours using
ProE. We also have solidworks, Autocad, cadkey, SDRC, Rhino, and almost
everything else under the sun in house but ProE is hands down superior at
this task. We have excess capacity in that area and we can turn around
problem files pretty fast.
regards
Bob Morton
Fusion Engineering
In a message dated 12/2/99 3:20:16 PM Central Standard Time,
KDenton@williams-int.com writes:
<< Hello all,
It's kind of quiet out there after all the furry of earlier this week so
here is something else to talk about:
I recently received an .stl file that was generated from Alias and the file
was probably the worst (is that a word?) thing I had ever seen. I do not
know any thing about this software and the guy that uses it knows nothing
about writing files other then the native format. Do any of you use this
software for .stl file generation and if so what are you doing to get at
least close to usable files? IGES out has yielded the same results. We
have come to the conclusion that the software does a really bad job of
closing the object.
To give you an idea of how bad the last file was it took about 3 full 8 hour
days to clean the file up in Magics!
Any help would be great!
Karl Denton >>
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