Hi Roy,
If you have the original dwg files, try exploding the Mechanical Desktop
parts -which will turn them into ACIS solids and then use the regular STLOUT
command ( which will by default create a binary STL file ).
Don't forget to set the FACETRES high ( top value is 10).
Good luck,
Vesna
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi [mailto:owner-rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi]On Behalf
Of RoyJRATC@aol.com
Sent: July 6, 2000 3:45 PM
To: rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi
Subject: bad stl files?
Ever have a file that opens, looks beautiful in your viewer, but won't
build?
I have 2 of them! Very similar parts, basically 2 gears connected by a solid
cylinder. When we try to build these parts (3 tries now) the parts are built
in multiple sections. Here are some of the details:
1. Parts were built on a DTM machine. Each time, the other parts in the
build
came out fine. Just these 2 files had problems. Here are some of the
details:
2. Files were created in Mechanical Desktop - STL files are ASCII - We could
not find an option to make binary.
3. files are quite large 14 meg & 12 meg each.
Any help, suggestions or ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Roy Sheppard, Jr. CPMR
Atlantic Technical Components, Inc.
269 Heather Lane
Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417
201-337-2477 || 201-337-3008 FAX
royjratc@aol.com
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