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Mesh4CAD 2004 - Mesh to solid is an AutoCAD 2004, 2005 and 2006 application to convert AutoCAD drawing entities. It can convert mesh to solid or solid to mesh and create points, polyface meshes, faces, lines and 3d solids from other drawing entities.
Mesh4CAD 2007 - Mesh to solid: http://www.stefisko.com/download/Mesh4CAD2007.msi
Mesh4CAD 2004 - Mesh to solid: http://www.stefisko.com/download/Mesh4CAD2004.msi |
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STL Import for Solid Edge is a Stereolithography (.stl) file import add-in for Solid Edge®. This plug-in gives Solid Edge the ability to import geometric data from ASCII and Binary STL files.
STL Import for Solid Edge reads polygon mesh data stored in STL files and imports it into Solid Edge. A polygon mesh in a STL file is comprised of a set of triangular faces. STL Import for Solid Edge creates trimmed planar surfaces for each triangle/quad and knits them together to create a body. If the polygon mesh is closed (i.e. it does not contain boundary edges) then STL Import for Solid Edge will create a closed body feature, otherwise an open surface will be created.
STL Import for Solid Edge is very easy to use. Once installed, it automatically loads itself into Solid Edge and adds a new submenu called "STL Import for Solid Edge" to the Solid Edge Applications menu.
The 'STL Import for Solid Edge' menu consists of the following commands:
# Import - Import a STL file
# Help - Display the STL Import for Solid Edge help file
# Register - Register your copy of STL Import for Solid Edge
# About - Display the STL Import for Solid Edge About box
STL Import for Solid Edge comes with detailed documentation for each command as well as a tutorial to get you started in the shortest possible time.
The STL File Format
The STL file format is the Rapid Prototyping industry's standard data transmission format and is the format required to interact with stereolithography machines. Stereolithography files contain solids which are made up of 3 sided facets. STL files may be ASCII or binary data, although binary is far more common due to the resulting size of the CAD data when saved to the ASCII format. A STL file describes a raw unstructured triangulated surface by the unit normal and vertices (ordered by the right-hand rule) of the triangles using a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system.
STL Import for Solid Edge: http://www.sycode.com/installers/stl_import_se.exe
Mesh To Solid: http://www.sycode.com/installers/mesh_to_solid.exe
Mesh To Solid is a software to convert a mesh into a solid.
A mesh is a set of vertices connected by edges that describe triangular or quadrilateral faces. These faces describe the shape of the object that the mesh describes. Meshes are often used to describe closed solid or open surface objects. However, general solid modeling software do not have methods to manipulate or modify mesh objects. Solid modeling operations such as boolean operations (add, subtract, intersect), extrude, offset, fillet, chamfer, rib, draft, shell, hollow, etc. are possible only with solid or surface objects. Moreover, there is no way to convert a mesh into a solid so that the solid modeling operations can be carried out on it. Mesh To Solid solves this problem by giving you the ability to convert a mesh to a solid.
Mesh To Solid can read mesh objects from the following file formats:
Rhinoceros files (*.3dm)
3D Studio files (*.3ds)
Stereolithography files (*.stl)
Wavefront files (*.obj)
Mesh To Solid saves solid data in the following file formats:
ACIS files (*.sat)
Rhinoceros files (*.3dm)
Mesh To Solid is designed to be extremely user friendly and easy to understand. Its as easy as opening a mesh file using the Open command and saving it as a solid using the Save As command. |