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2011-05-01
2013-03-08
  • Benjamin Grant

    Benjamin Grant - 2011-05-01

    Hi All,
    starting off trying to use PyCAM. I'm designing originally in autocad, exporting as STL (using following steps:
    1. Set DISPSILH to 1
    2. Set ISOLINES to 0
    3. Set FACETRES to 10
    4. Relocate the object to the positive X-Y-Z octant
    5. Use the STLOUT command to export an STL file.)
    When I open with pycam it's totally white.  It's weird because if i view it with a generic stl-viewer(freeware) then it shows up fine, so I'm confused as to why it doesn't show up. Thoughts?
    Thanks
    Ben

     
  • Lars

    Lars - 2011-05-27

    Hi Benjamin,

    could you attach the STL file, please? Or please send it to my sourceforge mail address, if you don't want to publish it.

    For now I never noticed any problems with the STL output of various programs (OpenSCAD, Art of Illusion, QCad, …). Thus I guess, it will be quite easy to fix this issue with the format exported by AutoCAD.

    thanks!
    Lars

     

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