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a.wieneke  
#1 Posted : Monday, March 16, 2015 2:53:36 PM(UTC)
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hello,

i do have an .stl file and would like to work with it. what is the best way to change the object ? I tried, to change into solid, it is not working, only the beachball is running for hours.

thank you for any help

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#2 Posted : Monday, March 16, 2015 3:15:30 PM(UTC)
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The Edit: Change Object Type uses the standard stitcher and has limits.

I am creating an add-on to ViaCAD that adds another stitcher (from IntegrityWare) and options to simplify if possible.

http://www.masterviacad....ckPro/page20/page20.html

If you can zip and send me your file, I'll see how well it works.


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a.wieneke  
#3 Posted : Tuesday, March 17, 2015 5:42:30 AM(UTC)
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thank you Tim,

how do i add the file into the post ?

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Tim Olson  
#4 Posted : Tuesday, March 17, 2015 9:33:20 AM(UTC)
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Hello Andreas

In the lower left corner is an "Attach files to this post?" check box.

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#5 Posted : Tuesday, March 17, 2015 10:45:29 AM(UTC)
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Hello Andreas

In the lower left corner is an "Attach files to this post?" check box.

Tim



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Hello Andreas

Based on the organic shape of the file, I decided to use the SubD to NURB tool in PowerPack.

But since it was all unstructured triangles, I first used 3D-Coat's auto topo command to convert into quads. For a file such this, you will need to remesh.

Once converted, I was able to create a nice water tight NURB solid.

Below is a link to the resulting ViaCAD file. (99994 triangles ->63482 quads ->764 NURB face solid)

http://www.csi-concepts.com/Demo/misc/chip.zip

Tim

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#7 Posted : Wednesday, March 18, 2015 4:08:43 AM(UTC)
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Hello Tim,


thank you very, very much !

one last question: could you send me the link for downloading / buying the PowerPack.
I can only find the site, where all the features are listed.

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Tim Olson  
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Hi Andreas

>>> buying the PowerPack.

On Friday Encore approved a variety of PowerPack Beta promotions which I should be sending out next week.

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i will look for the Beta PowerPack

and thank you for your friendly work to change my .stl file :-)

i say good night now , here in germany.
have a nice day.

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#10 Posted : Friday, April 3, 2015 6:28:58 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Tim Olson Go to Quoted Post
Hello Andreas

Based on the organic shape of the file, I decided to use the SubD to NURB tool in PowerPack.

But since it was all unstructured triangles, I first used 3D-Coat's auto topo command to convert into quads. For a file such this, you will need to remesh.

Once converted, I was able to create a nice water tight NURB solid.

Below is a link to the resulting ViaCAD file. (99994 triangles ->63482 quads ->764 NURB face solid)

http://www.csi-concepts.com/Demo/misc/chip.zip

Tim


Hi Tim. I have a PNG. FILE of an image that I want to import into VIACAD. I am able to doso, but how do I attach the image onto the top of my material of 3"x3"x1.5" in VIACAD? I want to attach it to the top, then extrude the image so that I can sink it into my material, so that I can machine that image shape into my material, for example; like if I were to machine a logo in aluminum.
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Tim Olson  
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>>then extrude the image so that I can sink it into my material, so that I can machine that image shape into my material

ViaCAD does not have a tool that converts an image into 3D. Some possible options for you:

• Read the image into ViaCAD and trace over with curves as a basis for your 3d model
http://www.csi-concepts.com/Demo/videos/Tracing.mp4

• Try one of the free scan to dxf apps to get outlines which you can extrude

• If it is an Illustrator file, convert to paths and export as in the tutorial below
http://www.csi-concepts....tutorials/AITutorial.pdf


Good luck!

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