import *.stl on inventor

[beccamort]

Is that possible? I can "transit" from rhino, but I still haven't.
Thank you.

 

[Ilario]

Direct stl, no. but if you can transit from rhino, there is a plugin that matters .3dm http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/rhino_import/

 

[beccamort]

thanks ilario, I have installed the plugin: with rhino apro l'stl, except as 3dm, open by inventor but I find an empty file. I just see a sketch I made. I see only other producer->report of conversion and nothing else.
I tried with different settings.

The report is this:
conversion ratio of autodesk inventor Wednesday 24 March 2010 (11.34)
file of origin: \\workstation\disegni_inventor\disegni_inventor\hrt720\pezzi - masks\consegne_scansioni_0209\dati_pezzo_5\kaw_017.3dm
type conversion program: rhino sending system: rhinoceros 4.0
author: user3 conversion duration: 00:00:12

options
import type: n/a
types of entities to import: solids, surfaces, wire, points
import together as a single part: n/a
creates surfaces such as: single composite processing

import more solid parts as together: n/a
unit: millimeter
check loading parts: No.
automatically join and raise the level: n/a
Advanced correction enabled: No.

 

[Ilario]

attach stl if you can, it may be "set up" before import

 

[Ilario]

found, the sl is a mesh file, which inventor does not see.
from rhino, type in the command bar _meshtonurb (the icon is also on the left bar the first command for mesh clicks it with the dx), select the mesh and press Enter. Save in .3dm. after you can import it

 

[beccamort]

thank you. mesh is more than 20,000 surfaces and is too large for command. i try to divide it (i never used rhino until today).

maybe interested in someone:
the stl file was created by a specialist who photographing the piece (a complex cast in cast iron) from various angles and with various reference bubbles converted the photos a cloud of points precisely. impressive, half an hour from photos to 3d file. sin only these difficulties to import on inventor.

 

[Avoplus]

mhm... I am not a super expert in this matter but the stl format is very used in rapid prototyping and, above all, in reverse engineering. If I don't remember badly, it should be composed of a series of mesh made, as you rightly said, by a cloud of points. the result is, in fact, a meshatura.
ask inventor (or any other cad 3d) to import it directly seems a bit excessive... :tongue:

 

[maxopus]

It's reverse, so do I with the laser pull out the stl.
what you saw was probably done with the atos of the gom.
I don't think inventor has a reverse module.