Rhinocerous also allows you to import several different ypes of file formats
and then reexport all, many, or single objects in many different formats.
However, I don't know whether Rhino would "crash" under the requirement of
importing and aligning up to 200 files!
John
>From: Jan.Hill@adidas.de
>To: rps@dircon.co.uk, rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi
>Subject: RE: Making a single STL file from Multiple parts.
>Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 08:33:59 +0200
>
>You can also try out 3DdataExpert from Deskartes or Paraform. It allows you
>to merge several stl file and save it at once.
>
>Jan Hill
>
>adidas-Salomon AG
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: RP Solutions [mailto:rps@dircon.co.uk]
>Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 6:15 PM
>To: rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi
>Subject: Making a single STL file from Multiple parts.
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I have a customer that wants to prototype an assembly as a single part,
>what
>the customer wants is to see the assembly as a single object, just exterior
>shape.
>
>The customer has all the component parts as STL files(200 pcs) but they
>cannot merge them together to create a single STL file of the exterior
>shape.
>
>Is there some software that will merge the STL data to create a single STL
>of the exterior shape? I know I can slice up the component in Quickslice
>and
>edit out each curve to create the exterior but this takes a long time.
>
>The customer has tried to merge the files in ProE without sucess, would a
>point cloud or polygon manipulating software get me the external shape I
>want?
>
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>
>
>Oliver Cole
>Technical Director
>
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