Reasonable STL export settings

[alan-bc]

After owning Alibre for three years and never using it even once (too comfortable with my old CAD program, I suppose), I actually created my first drawing today! It's a very simply part to adapt a Shopvac hose to a standard built-in vacuum pipe.

Circle - new plane - smaller circle (to give me a bit of taper) - loft - extrude.

Next step is to 3D print it, so File - Export - Stl, etc.

I used the default parameters for the STL export. The export takes a VERY long time methinks, 15 minutes or more, which seems NUTS.

Crazier still, the resulting file is 6 GB in size.

It occurs to me that the default Alibre settings are probably not optimal. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Ken226]

Here are my settings.

 

[alan-bc]

Thanks!

And wow, as simple as that; don't bother with two of the settings and set the third to what would seem to be a wee bit coarse.

I have to admit, it outputs a file so quickly I wasn't sure it actually did anything and the STL looks just like what I hope it should.

Thanks again.

 

[motoxmuseum]

Generating an OBJ instead of an STL can be quicker. However, I have OBJ files that are not correct. I reported this as a bug so be aware to check the output.