Re: Alias to stl file conversions....

From: Michael Tsenter (nest@primenet.com)
Date: Thu Dec 02 1999 - 23:05:08 EET

Hi Karl:

You can try DeskArtes 3Data Expert to convert IGES from Alias to STL and then
run our automatic STL repair routines (gap filling & gap stiching).

We have many users who filter Alias data using 3Data Expert.

Best regards,
Michael Tsenter

KDenton@williams-int.com wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> It's kind of quiet out there after all the furry of earlier this week so
> here is something else to talk about:
>
> I recently received an .stl file that was generated from Alias and the file
> was probably the worst (is that a word?) thing I had ever seen. I do not
> know any thing about this software and the guy that uses it knows nothing
> about writing files other then the native format. Do any of you use this
> software for .stl file generation and if so what are you doing to get at
> least close to usable files? IGES out has yielded the same results. We
> have come to the conclusion that the software does a really bad job of
> closing the object.
>
> To give you an idea of how bad the last file was it took about 3 full 8 hour
> days to clean the file up in Magics!
>
> Any help would be great!
>
> Karl Denton
>
> For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/ 

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