Beastro, can you give me a sense of the workflow you are trying to accomplish? When you say "modify", what do you mean? What tools would you want to use to modify it? What kind of modifications would you need to make? Closing holes in the mesh? Adding extrusions?
The answers to these questions helps us determine what level of mesh support we will offer in the future, and what technologies we will need to use.
Hi Max,
Thanks for chiming in and first of all congrats for the new release of Alibre!
I'll give you a practical example:
Our support group for health services in Spain is designing a face mask to be printed by our members. There are a few things and requirements that this mask has to fulfil, but generally the basic shape can/should be taken from an anatomically proven design instead of reinventing the wheel.
Nevertheless, I would have to change things, starting with filter size and shape, face contact area and sealing of the mask etc.
What I would need at the very minimum, is the possibility to import a, as Lew put it earlier in this thread, "Dumb solid" to be able to project to sketch, trim, use it for booleans, etc.
Unfortunately, these days everybody publishes designes only as STL or other meshes and often these designs have to be adapted to become meaningful for one's own applications. As BigSeb put it in another thread not long ago, not having any way to deal constructively with those mesh files only leaves open the possibility to 3d scan or design everything from scratch.
I know of course that I can do the conversation via Freecad etc., but in this particular case FreeCad does not want to convert the STL to Step (why I don't know). I will try later with the command line utility from Hunter.
Thanks for the help!
Berthold