Hi, first time ever posting in Reddit. Ive been using SW2015 for a while now. Still a n00b tho. All self-thought. I found a model online, BOUGHT it and turns out SW doesnt understand the file. Plan B: Instal 'blender' since the model was made with it, i think. Opens up nice etc. I can even export the file as STL so SW can understand but it has 'mere' 300,000 facets. How does the SW 'Recognize Features' work? Can it be used here? I have the premium version and i go the 'Insert > FeatureWorks > Recognize Features' but its greyed out. Did i do something wrong here? I can draw a few models but simple bare-bone basics in some areas might have some holes in my knowledge-base. I know the model is gonna need some 'fixing' and im willing to do that, i just need to be able to open it somehow in SW. No SW does not 'understand' STL files in the way you are thinking. Your options for importing solid and surface geometry are pretty much limited to.STEP,.x_t (parasolid), and.iges type files. From the File menu, you can also open files with the following tools: Open Recent Lists recently used files. Click on one to load it in. Recover Last Session This will load the quit.blend file Blender automatically saved just before exiting. This option enables you to recover your last work session if, for example, you closed Blender by accident. Recover Auto Save This will allow you to open an automatically saved file to recover it. From Maya this mesh has been exported to IGES files and then. Using other programs like Freecad, Import your stl from Maya/Blender. The STL format imports as essentially a 3D graphical image in same way you can texture a 2D raster JPG file onto a surface but it doesn't really do anything. The only system I've had hands-on experience with actually reading from an STL file is Ansys SpaceClaim. I think there are some others out there as well. I think what you learned here is to do a more thorough investigation of your capabilities before pulling the trigger. It's analogous to if I were to accept a job to do laser etching because I own laser cutters. Actual truth is my lasers can't do etching, they only punch through stuff. Hi mate if you hover over the addin in SolidWorks it will show the file path, should be something like: 'C: ProgramFiles SOLIDWORKS CORP SOLIDWORKS ScanTo3D addin swngre.dll' If you go start -> type cmd -> type in. Regsvr32 -u *Drag and drop in the.dll file from aforementioned file path (Windows 7) In Windows 10 type in Regsvr32 -u 'C: ProgramFiles SOLIDWORKS CORP SOLIDWORKS ScanTo3D addin swngre.dll' To unregister the.dll then straight after Regsvr32 'C: ProgramFiles SOLIDWORKS CORP SOLIDWORKS ScanTo3D addin swngre.dll' To re-register the.dll, btw this will work for most of your add-ins if they aren't showing. I think the issue stems from a security update KB3072630 interfering with your installation so I would recommend you also disable anti-virus, remove that update, repair your SolidWorks installation and then re-enable your anti-virus. Hope that helps, good luck • • • • •. Iges Files For DownloadI made very good experiences with 3DJuump (). It supports many CAD file formats (Step, Iges, CATIA, Inventor, NX, SolidWorks.) and can export to WRL, OBJ, DAE and FBX. There is a 10 day free trial. The following features make it a very good software in my view • The CAD hierarchy is exported to Blender if FBX is used as the export format • It comes with a built-in and very efficient simplification algorithm, that reduces polygon counts while maintaining good model quality • It exports colors • It works fast, reliably and with very large models. I use it at work every day. I made good experiences with FreeCAD (0.16) both transforming to allow import into blender from step/iges data as also the other way around: exporting STLs from blender and then get them to be reshaped in FreeCAD and then exported as step or iges. Iges File FormatFreeCAD is fast, acurate, open source and available for windows, linux and macOS (sometimes there are holes to stitch and most of the times when transform from step or iges into STL there are a few mesh operations and repairs needed, which work very well in FreeCad too.) FreeCAD also understands, imports and exports DAE. Here's a little walkthrough for Blenders STL -> STEP/ IGES: (of course there are minor inadequaticies due to the transformation, but for me at least, these were always tolarable (below 0.1mm)) so at least for prototyping it proves to be suitable in both directions.
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