Well yes SW has a tool known as ScanTo3D which looking at the documentation I suspect is really what would suite us best. Will Meshmixer let me design an in-sole that will “interface” to the foot? I guess I am assuming that would be difficult. A foot is organic and maybe trying to use SW as the method may not be a good choice but at this point that is where our skills are. This may be a game changer – it came up today after I made my post.
#Solidworks convert stl to prt software
stl file it may well be done with an Xbox (although iPhone software has also been mentioned). I am awaiting confirmation but at the moment I am assuming also that the scan will be a. The 2 nd method and maybe the more likely is for us to receive the scan of the foot. I have no idea but could check I guess to see if the file was a mesh or a point cloud. stl file into SW was useless we just redrew it in SW from scratch, took about 20 minutes but it would not have been highly accurate as we had no dimensions and the work I think would not allow for spending a lot of 3D design time for each file. stl file from this software to 3D print but we wanted to make some modifications to it first. One method to get these is for the foot to be scanned and input to specialised medical modelling software which provides the design of the in-sole. medical in-soles to re-align the foot into proper posture. Kolia: The subject matter is orthoses, i.e. stp file from InStep, all of which I will import into SW tomorrow and let you know the results. To answer the questions.ģDmaker4U/Woofy: I now have a. ply which at the moment mean nothing to me.Īs you can no doubt see I am well out of my depth here at the moment but am hoping that some of you may have needed to go through a similar exercise and might be able to offer me some wisdom and guidance on the process I need to undertake. Now checking Meshmixer I see it will not export a STEP file so I am still at a bit of a loss as how I get this new dimensioned solid model (if it is solid) into Solidworks, the only options seem to be. I have just used the Make solid tool – help text for that said “tool help text” so I have no idea what that does really/what I have done to the model by using it, apart from hopefully the obvious. I have not looked at Meshlab yet maybe that is better. I really cannot get motivated to learn software when it has no documentation. tool help for the Measure/Dimension tool is “Measure dimensions in the scene”. I have had a little play with Meshmixer for creating supports but have not gone any further as I find the interface difficult and the help (that I have looked at) is non-existent – e.g. I understand 2D drafting and 3D solid modelling but I really do not understand anything about these mesh formats and the software that manipulates them. My research so far leads me to think that Meshmixer or Meshlab may be my saviour. Now this may be OK for a figurine but it is no good for engineering work or, in this case, medical work. You need to do things manually by doing it visually. You cannot detect any edges or planes and so cannot get at any dimensions. Solidworks will import the STL file but in reality you cannot do anything with it. The difficulty is that Solidworks (and most other modellers I am guessing) does what it says on the tin – it works with solids not with mesh files. But before printing I need to get the file/data into Solidworks so I can modify the design of the scanned part. I am assuming that this will come in the guise of an STL file. I have a project where my input will be scanned data.
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