topic Re: .stp or .stl in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

.stp or .stl

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 05:01:28 GMT

Can?stl files be used for machining steel molds

Re: .stp or .stl

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 16:22:42 GMT

Yes, there are several ways of converting an imported mesh into a body that can be used in the CAM workspace. However it's always much better to work directly with CAD file formats, such as Fusion's native .f3d, or .step, .sldprt etc.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-and-documentation/simple-edit-to-imported-stl-file/m-p/5720002/highlight/true#M28121

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-and-documentation/foot-insole-modelling/td-p/5715117

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-and-documentation/object-snap-trouble-gt-suggested-improvements/m-p/5746421/highlight/true#M29194

If you have any more questions let us know!

Jesse

Re: .stp or .stl

TrippyLighting — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 16:28:05 GMT

I would definitely use the STEP file format (*.stp) if you can get that to work. STL was never intended as a data exchange format and includes only heavily triangulated mesh data. STEP on the other hand is solid model data.