make a stl file editable

[Nemo81]

Good morning, I received a stl file, once opened but I couldn't put it on a floor, nor to carry out measurements or processing.
How do I make it changeable?
Thank you.

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

What does it mean to put it on a plan?
How is this stl composed? bodies, surfaces?
to make it changeable you have to tell him to rebuild the functions; He asks you at the end of the import. but it is not a trivial or completely automatic thing

 

[Nemo81]

put it for example on a frontal plane to perform a processing, (e.g. extrusion or cutting) the sl is composed of both bodies and surfaces

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

If you have to do a function on the front floor, select the front floor and do what you need.

 

[Utente cancellato 70856]

the last swx vers allow to reconstruct the stl part from mesh to solid recreating,manually the work as extrusion etc,as spaceclaim powershape etc if you leave mesh you can do nothing

 

[LaboratorioDieci]

a stl is by definition a mesh. from 2018 sw knows mesh bodies. on these you can make a limited reconstruction of surfaces, you can make boolean between mesh bodies, or even with solid/superficial bodies if before they are converted into mesh bodies. not much, but maybe someone is enough

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[Utente cancellato 70856]

http://help.solidworks.com/2019/ita...h.htm?id=8906bea6def24ffe921e7ccc907adde2#pg0

 

[LaboratorioDieci]

Right. 2019 also includes direct reconstruction, through selection of triangles, planar, spherical, cylindrical and conical surfaces. lacking the "towel" surfaces, and this is a quite relevant limit. in any case to make a stl editable as it was a native solid, it is practically necessary to reshape everything, and there is no reverse engineering that can do so completely automatically.
the 2019 version also has the possibility to create sections on the mesh, in order to better shape it above. can also make other interesting games with the sl.