STL to STEP Conversion Script (RESOLVED)
- Thread starter RocketNut
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You almost certainly can't.
STL files contain many triangular facets. Going from 'proper CAD' to STL is easy, but detail is inevitably lost. A straight conversion from STL to CAD will replicate all those triangles and give a huge file size. You need specialist software to reverse engineer the original geometry (try to work out where the curves were).
You could try deleting faces one at a time using the direct editing tools - it may allow you to get rid of some facets and fill in the gaps. If it works it will be slow, and it may not work.
STL files contain many triangular facets. Going from 'proper CAD' to STL is easy, but detail is inevitably lost. A straight conversion from STL to CAD will replicate all those triangles and give a huge file size. You need specialist software to reverse engineer the original geometry (try to work out where the curves were).
You could try deleting faces one at a time using the direct editing tools - it may allow you to get rid of some facets and fill in the gaps. If it works it will be slow, and it may not work.
NateLiquidGravity
Alibre Super User
For a fairly simple part your best bet is to recreate it from scratch in Alibre Design. I would project some of the imported model to sketches and then copy and paste them into a new clean part to start from.