There is another way you can do it with ACIS if your 3D design is in
solids ( R13). You can export the file via .SAT (ACISOUT) to
TriSpectives Professional (www.eye.com). TriPro has a clean .STL out
capability including tesselation control. TriPro runs $399.95 on sale.
Regards,
Lee D.
3D/EYE Inc
PS You get a free upgrade to Version 2.0
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From: "Kevin Robertson"[SMTP:kevin@arrk.com]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 1997 10:04 AM
To: rp-ml
Subject: AutoCAD (was Re: 3D in CAD)
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>>From owner-rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi Thu Apr 03 21:26:41 1997
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>Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 00:10:20 -0500
>To: rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi
>From: cmca@snet.net (C.McArdle)
>Subject: AutoCAD (was Re: 3D in CAD)
>Cc: ray@solidconcepts.com (Ray Bradford)
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>
>Ray (and everybody),
>
>Does AutoCAD export .stl files?
>
When ouputting .STL from any of the AutoCAD Revisions, even on a setting
of
10, the files still can suffer poor tessellation. A couple of ways to
overcome this:
1) Increase the part size by a certain factor (2x, for example), then do
an
STL output. Once the .STL is output you can reduce the part back to
the
original
percentage. This basically fools the output into more triangles. I've
never tried,
but hear this works.
2) Output an .IGES file and use Brockware or other translators to output
the
STL
file. On AutoCad, CADkey and some of the other less expensive
packages,
this
option is preferrable to using their own .STL utilities.
Best of Luck,
Kevin Robertson
ARRK-San Diego, CA
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