topic Re: Stl color change from powershape to powermill !! in PowerMill Forum

Stl color change from powershape to powermill !!

psx2 — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:00:53 GMT

Hi,
I've an stl in powershape and when i export this in Pm (i use powermill icon in powershape toolbar ) the stl color change in green !!!
Why do not keep the original color ???

Re: Stl color change from powershape to powermill !!

jitendra.chaudhari — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 03:32:28 GMT

Hi @psx2,

Thank you for contacting Autodesk Community Forum..

Can you please share the relevant STL model so that we can test it at our end?

Please confirm the versions of Autodesk PowerShape and PowerMill that currently you are using at your end? The latest versions are as-

Autodesk PowerShape - 2018 R2 (2018.1.1.18121)

Autodesk PowerMill - 2018 (2018.1.2.1212155)

If the supplied data is confidential then fell free to supply data suing private massage on Autodesk Forums or directly mail me data at jitendra.chaudhari@autodesk.com

Please verify and confirm.

Thank you for your time and Co-operation,

Re: Stl color change from powershape to powermill !!

5axes — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 05:31:32 GMT

STL is a very Basic format. It just define triangles and no layer or color informations are present in the file. So the color is necessarily a default color. If you want to transfer triangles model from powershape to pmill with their attributes use an other format l'une Dgk or dmt

Re: Stl color change from powershape to powermill !!

5axes — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 05:35:44 GMT

Oup's sorry i haven't read completely your post. As your are using the direct transfer solution, it's not an issue with the stl format. Don't take care of my answer 😉

Re: Stl color change from powershape to powermill !!

psx2 — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 07:00:34 GMT

thanks to all !!

see please Video

my version of pm is Version: 2018.1.2.1212155

ps is Versione: 2018.1.1.18121

thanks

Re: Stl color change from powershape to powermill !!

ewshp — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 07:15:45 GMT

This is "normal" behavior.

Meshes don't carry color information when sent to PowerMILL, so what you see is a default color.

In the past i have asked about the possibility for the color associated to a mesh to be sent to PowerMILL but i was told it was impossible due to some kind of legacy code.

Somehow it would be useful to have this functionnality (that already works on surfaces) to be able to select mesh by color in macro and automate things a bit more

Re: Stl color change from powershape to powermill !!

psx2 — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 08:46:59 GMT

Somehow it would be useful to have this functionnality (that already works on surfaces) to be able to select mesh by color in macro and automate things a bit more

yessssss

Re: Stl color change from powershape to powermill !!

ewshp — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:31:21 GMT

Unfortunately it seems we can not longer submit ideas for PowerMILL / PowerSHAPE (these sections no longer appear in the idea list)

@jitendra.chaudhari : How can we forward this to the proper team ?

Re: Stl color change from powershape to powermill !!

5axes — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 15:23:27 GMT

@ewshp wrote:

This is "normal" behavior.

Meshes don't carry color information when sent to PowerMILL, so what you see is a default color.

In the past i have asked about the possibility for the color associated to a mesh to be sent to PowerMILL but i was told it was impossible due to some kind of legacy code.

Somehow it would be useful to have this functionnality (that already works on surfaces) to be able to select mesh by color in macro and automate things a bit more

It's much more an issue of PowerShape and an answer made by lazy peoples. If you export and import a dgk or dmt file made in PMILL, color is transfer by these formats. The same files made in PowerShape the color is not "transfered". But a color is define because the color of the element load as ddz or dmt is different. So it's absolutly possible to transfer this information via these format.

Re: Stl color change from powershape to powermill !!

psx2 — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:50:11 GMT

sorry but i don't undestand you !!

It's possible or not ?

it's possible but autodesk it's lazy !??!?!?!?!

Re: Stl color change from powershape to powermill !!

jonathan.artiss — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 20:23:28 GMT

@ewshp

@ewshp wrote:

Unfortunately it seems we can not longer submit ideas for PowerMILL / PowerSHAPE (these sections no longer appear in the idea list)

@jitendra.chaudhari : How can we forward this to the proper team ?

You can still submit "Ideas" these are sent through to development we are contacted through the Autodesk cases. If you submit a case asking for functionality we will send it to development as a "change request"

Cheers,

Re: Stl color change from powershape to powermill !!

psx2 — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 14:20:12 GMT

Sorry but
it's possible to change the default color of stl from green to withe ??
Thanks

Re: Stl color change from powershape to powermill !!

5axes — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 07:51:26 GMT

In PowerMill you can export the color not with PowerShape. So as you are exporting the data from PowerShape for me it's not possible. But as it is a PowerShape issue, post your request in the PowerShape Forum.

Re: Stl color change from powershape to powermill !!

psx2 — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 10:33:05 GMT

ok thanks !!!