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How to convert STL to STEP using FreeCAD

Sar Dar
in Design & CAD
89 23 Beginner
This tutorial covers how to convert an STL to a STEP using FreeCAD. Note: Since STLs are meshes, the resulting model won't be as precise as parts originally made as solids. FreeCAD can export: - Step - Iges - Scad - Dxf - Dwg - Obj - Pdf And many others…
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Simple Spring in PTC CREO PARAMETRIC 3.0

Yash Lad
in Modeling
26 0 Expert
simple spring creation by using helical sweep function.
PTC Creo Parametric solid part plane pitch circle axis sketch spring sweep helical parametric creo ptc

HOW TO CONVERT STL IN SOLID

Sérgio CAD CAM
in Modeling
21 3 Beginner
HOW TO CONVERT A .STL FILE IN A SOLID PART USING THE SOFTWARE SOLIDWORKS; CONVERTENDO UM GRÁFICO .STL EM UMA PEÇA SÓLIDA NO SOLIDWORKS; LEMBRANDO QUE DURANTE A CONVERSÃO O ARQUIVO GERADO FICA MUITO PESADO. #STL #SOLID #SOLIDWORKS #FILE #CONVERT
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Solidworks car design project-BUGATTI VEYRON

Morteza Padarlar
in Design & CAD
18 0 Intermediate
Solidworks car design project-BUGATTI VEYRON surface modeling and convert to solid body https://www.instagram.com/mortezapadarlar/
SOLIDWORKS bugatti modeling surface body solid convert design car

Creating scalable associative geometry/features in NX

cmalco
in Modeling
11 0 Intermediate
Pinion Gear using Through Curves with associative, scaled geometry (NX9)
NX Unigraphics solid pattern circular body scaled associative curves through

How to change the blades on a 'dumb solid' (CATIA)

Jack K
in Modeling
10 1 Intermediate
This tutorial is to provide a guide for modifying a CATIA file containing a "dumb" solid. (The reader should be familiar with basic CATIA Part Design commands) This tutorial is to respond to a recent question asked by Nouman Khalid: "This dump solid is generated from a STL and i am given a .STP file. I want all the blades to be similar to generate a reference model for modal analysis. I want the encircled blade to be copied all over rotor. Please guide how this can be done."
CATIA modify step solid dumb catia

How to make core and cavity of complex modles?

Amir Pakroo
in Design & CAD
9 0 Beginner
I tried to explain a simple way to create core and cavity with free form surfacing procedure in PowerSHAPE , with this surfacing technique you can make any complicate mold faces for any type of objects, you can replace this technique with your surface commands in solid works , hope you like it , ...
SOLIDWORKS core spoon solid complex mould works surfaces cavity

Solidworks Tutorial : Soap Bottle

Dono Cre'
in Modeling
9 0 Intermediate
In this tutorial I will share about how to create part of Roller Banner design using the Solidworks software with various features such as: ~ 2D Sketch ~ Extrude Boss ~ Extrude Cut ~ Mirror Feature ~ Fillet/Chamfer ~ Pattern ~ Surface Feature ~ etc.
SOLIDWORKS liquid sketch trimsurface solid bottle surface

HOW TO ANIMATE IN SOLID EDGE

Shafe Mohammad
in Simulation & CAE
9 1 Beginner
In this tutorial I will show you how to give motors (rotary) to your mechanism Example of A Robotic Arm is taken
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How to convert enclosed surface to solid in CATIA?

BDNS Murthy
in Design & CAD
9 1 Beginner
Small example from my side. As there is no software supporting to your .catpart file. I do have Catia v5 r19
CATIA solid surface convert watertight enclosed

diverse shape translation to JT or STP

juergen grewe
in Translations
9 2 Intermediate
Have found a way to import / translate easy shape files like 3ds, wrl, skp, stl, ifc and so on into JT or STP. The shape files can have texture or not. My interest was how to get the shape files with texture translated to JT. For this, I use PCon Planner and save as 3DS. After this, import it into MeshLab (single texture file / no layer) and save it as WRL (VRML 2). This is than easy to import into Teamcenter Livecyle Visualisation (TCVis) and save as JT. If you like to have more imported WRL/JT files into TCvis (JT2Go) please rename the texture or the view results in TCVis (JT2Go) are bad, looks like unplaced textures. If you like to export files with not a texture another way is to use. The fast one with no colours is to save as stl and import it into your volume modeller. The longer way is here to import it into PCon after this save as Skp (Sketchup) and now is to use Automapki (~40 $ or € / year sorry no freeware I have found) and save as STP file. The result you can now import into a volume modeller and use it there or (and) save it as JT and many other files too. Hope you like this tutorial a bit. If you have any questions please let me know.
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How to make core and cavity of complex modles?

Verislav Mudrak
in Design & CAD
8 0 Beginner
How to make core and cavity of complex models?
SOLIDWORKS core spoon solid complex mould works surfaces cavity

Tutorial: Convert .stl Mesh to Solid File in Autodesk Inventor

Ioannis Skarlatakis
in Design & CAD
8 9 Beginner
I found today a post from a friend (Nuno) asking how to solve this issue, converting an .stl to solid .ipt. Then I remembered that I found something in the past regarding this conversion... Yeap! it was in Autodesk Labs So let me explain with couple of easy steps how this works...
Autodesk Inventor inventor solid mesh stl convert ipt tipsntricks

Tutorial - How to drive a Solid Edge model from Excel

Grant Holohan
in Design & CAD
8 2 Beginner
Here's how...
Solid Edge table link part variable solid edge synchronous tutorial excel variables

The simplest wood carving pattern #1

Andrey Chayka
in Modeling
8 0 Beginner
I show step by step the principle of building this element in Solid Works
SOLIDWORKS tutorial printing 3d carving wood works solid
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