manage stl files

[frade24]

Hi, I didn't find anything about it and I can't solve the problem.
I need to intersect a stl file with a part created by me and delete the intersected part. opening the stl file as a solid body, I can't handle it: in practice I have to associate a point (a vertex) of the stl file with a point of my part, to create intersection. I select the two points but it doesn't give me any mating rule. I don't know if that's the right procedure. Can you help me? Thank you.

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

Can you attach the files?
if yes, of the stl attaches both the imported and the original file

 

[frade24]

I can't help it.

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

at least one image of the property manager of the coupling with visible the two points...

 

[LaboratorioDieci]

Hi, I didn't find anything about it and I can't solve the problem.
I need to intersect a stl file with a part created by me and delete the intersected part. opening the stl file as a solid body, I can't handle it: in practice I have to associate a point (a vertex) of the stl file with a point of my part, to create intersection. I select the two points but it doesn't give me any mating rule. I don't know if that's the right procedure. Can you help me? Thank you.

import the stl file as graphics. create a 3d sketch in which you draw your reference on mesh.
then move your part on the reference sketch, the opposite does not seem to be possible. convert your part and body into mesh bodies, so you should succeed.

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

Sorry, shirokko, could you explain this method better? I never work with stl file so it is hard to imagine the procedure and motivation behind it.
above all this phrase

create a 3d sketch in which you draw your reference on mesh.
then move your part to the reference sketch

I did a test with a part exported to stl and reimported as solid and, while having the faces of the solid divided into triangles allowed me to select faces, points and edges to make couplings.

Thank you.

 

[LaboratorioDieci]

Sorry, shirokko, could you explain this method better? I never work with stl file so it is hard to imagine the procedure and motivation behind it.
above all this phrase
I did a test with a part exported to stl and reimported as solid and, while having the faces of the solid divided into triangles allowed me to select faces, points and edges to make couplings.

Thank you.

a stl imported as solid very often is extremely heavy. for this reason it is useful to import it as a graphic body. Unfortunately, however, the graphic body does not allow the selection of the vertices if not as reference in a 3d sketch, which then will become the reference for the positioning of the other solid body.
Moreover from the 2018 version solidworks contemplates the bodies of mesh, which can be used for Boolean operations.
the system can be Moroccan, but it allows to work on quite complex stl.

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

I didn't understand, not because of you, but I didn't know why. Maybe one day I try to mess with it.
the user however specified that imported it as solid body

 

[LaboratorioDieci]

I saw what I wanted to see. I have the feeling that the first intention was assembly style coupling, which in a side file is not available unless you use the move/copy function

 

[MassiVonWeizen]

I always say that attaching at least one image of what you are describing makes everything easier, because to imagine things, even if you make a meticulous description, always returns a subjective reality.