jcdammeyer
Senior Member
I'm running into this fairly often lately. I use either Fusion360 or FreeCAD 0.19 to create a step file from the stl file or if I have it available I just load the step file from the original designer. As the screen shot shows there's one component that is called the imported step file. Onto this I put a hole all the way through with a sketch and cut extrusion. If I want to extend the smaller hub by 5mm I draw a circle on it, extrude it up 5mm, then also on the back side draw the 4 small holes and extrude them up through all. Very tedious and this is a simple part. Is there an easier way?
Now if I want to bring in a step file often it has loads of little facets and it's huge. In this case it was easier to take some measurements and recreate it making the whole stl to step to ad_prt a bit of a joke. How does one remove all the facets. My friend with Fusion was able to do this quite easily.
Now if I want to bring in a step file often it has loads of little facets and it's huge. In this case it was easier to take some measurements and recreate it making the whole stl to step to ad_prt a bit of a joke. How does one remove all the facets. My friend with Fusion was able to do this quite easily.