STL & SWX?

If you are lucky you can import to SWX and get a graphical image for looking at. Very seldom will it knit to solid.

Mike

SW sounds almost worthless then. What would be appropriate software for such an endevor? Can STL files be "split" into managable chunks?

Thanks

Michael Eckste> If you are lucky you can import to SWX and get a graphical image for looking

STL is just raw triangles. Most simpler programs like 3DSMAX and Blender (a free, open source alternative) can import STL through a plugin or natively.

apply smoothing groups to get something looking like a surface. Sometimes... A lot of high density scanned models tend to have gaps in them. So you'll have to patch in some faces or flip some edges to get a continuous mesh.

Blender has thorough documentation on their site and Max has a million different books written for it, so learning shouldn't be too difficult.

WC wrote:

Delcam has a Program Called PS Exchange. It will translate different solid models. It says you can veiw the end result and pay per translation. I don't know if this helps you.