Convert mesh to geometry meshlab software#
Convert mesh to geometry meshlab Pc#

So use some mesh software to remove duplicate stuff and try export the stl file to PLY/OBJ can yield results and less headache then stl? SO now I am thing, for some reason GDM might have better success with PLY files? maybe even OBJ as well? STL seems to be file format with minimal data as I did a quick read on the file formats.

so I saved that STL file to ply.Īnd then went into GDM, no luck with the 'try to convert geometry' but the 'use simplified import' gave me very good result best I could get, and basic shape dimensions seemed to be exact within 0.0001' as expected, far better then the organic option which rounds every edge possible and the precision is out the window by more then. I tried to mess in Meshlab, as it does auto removing of duplicate faces/vertices, I tried to save STL files, but none of them gave any results in GDM (at times it will say its done, and I have no mesh and no solid!!), then I said why not give something else a try, Meshlab seems to save mesh files to ply by default.

Convert mesh to geometry meshlab Pc#

So I was experimenting, and accidently at one time I had a beautiful conversion of a file in GDM, it managed to pull it off, on a different PC different settings somehow I could not reproduce this even though I tried to go back to similar tolerances in SprutCAM etc. This resulted in optimized file of only 1mb, vs the VOXEL file of 39MB! and that file had a lot of small faces and vertices many times more, for no reason at all since a lot of the surfaces were flat/sharp and only few radius areas The detailed or non flat/triangle parts were presented with up to the tolerance that I specified in SprutCAM, which I did about 0.0001 to 0.0002' no point going higher then that. I noticed the 'solid' one created far smaller files but yet had good optimized surfaces, that is mechanical surfaces that are flat, were represented with the most minimal faces and vertices, this was proven and seen in Meshlab easily. I have been messing around with Mesh files, trying to get some decent mechanical models, now my test was using machined fixture in SprutCAM 7, and using the Solid display mode, which seems to create nice optimized stl files vs the voxel 3d/5d