Hello,
Anyone here doing anything like this? I am working on some product that uses characters "designed" in Poser 4. Poser outputs a polygonal mesh. Using PolyTrans, I can convert this into a number of different formats, including IGES (we'll get to that) as well as STL.
I open the STL file in SolidWorks (as a Surface Body, Solid Body crashes and Graphics Body does not help me).
Jumping ahead to the real problem. I need to get the "doll parts" into SW so that I can do different things like add details for manufacturing, etc. I have seen software like GeoMagic and RapidForm that can convert from a polygon mesh to a flavored IGES, but at upwards of $20,000.00 cost. Frankly, if this is the only way to do this, I'll pop for the software, as I have a lot of this type of work to do. But if there is a way to do this without this expense, well... The IGES output from PolyTrans isn't much liked by SW, and I am not familiar enough with IGES to know exactly what SW is expecting. All the switches I have tried seem to crash in one way or another.
At the very least, I would like to bring in the STL, re-size it to make "presentable" in an assembly (to show, well, assembly of the unit) without crashing SW. Is there a way to convert the STL to surfaces or something (?) that I can manipulate in SW?
Thank you as always for any help.
Mike T.