Dear Camacho,
STl files are created in a CAD package after
tessellation, i.e. triangulation of surfaces/faces.
Hence the surface geometry gets approximated by
triangles and will affect accuracy if used for CNC.
CAD packages (I use CADDS 5) offer read-back to
create surface models of stl files. The original
surface gets approximated by hundreds of triangular
surfaces
Regards,
Prady
--- MC Moolman <Mmoolman@eng.tofs.ac.za> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am wondering if there is a
> CAD package that is able to convert a *.stl file to
> surface geomerty
> so that we can use it for machining. CNC codes.
>
> Regards
>
> M Camacho
> on behalf of M Moolman
>
>
> For more information about the rp-ml, see
> http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
>
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