Convert your meshes to beautiful STEP files! ~ (IN CLOSED BETA; Tool launching this FALL)
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Filleting a corner with 3 radii is non-trivial. No single ball radius can stay tangent to all faces at once, and the corner must be filled with a general n-sided blend, typically a Gregory patch that matches tangency along every bounding arc. Example: a 5 mm, 3 mm, and 2 mm corner has three fillet surfaces of different sizes meeting at mismatched heights, so the filler surface is a numerically-solved patch, not a primitive.
Have you checked your STL Export Quality? It comes down to surface deviation (distance) and normal deviation (angle). Curved regions benefit from more triangles and print smoother. Lower settings are fine on flat, prismatic parts; but on a cylinder, sphere, or fillet it leaves coarse facets the slicer reproduces as visible flats or banding.
Beta Users: The 📏measure tool is now live! Find it on the upper left in the 3D View! Measure holes, plane to plane, line to line, bore depth, and more. 📐🧐
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Today I'm testing @Convert2Step: a new STL to STEP tool currently in private beta.
It's one of the first standalone web-tools of its kind I've seen, but I'm certain it won't be the last.
A few weeks back I was bitchin and moanin about the fact that current mesh to solid... 🧵
