creating solid geometry from stl files

Dung the most handsome man
Dung the most handsome man Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Hello everyone,

I'm newbie in Inspire.

When i imported the stl file into inspire, i couldn't analysis. After reading an answer of a similar question in our forum, i figured it out that i have to create solid geom from stl file.
But the question is how do i know if the solid model can be created automatically from stl file, or i have to do it on my own.

Thanks.

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  • Mario_21478
    Mario_21478 Altair Community Member
    edited February 2019

    Hello,

     

    In the help you can read that STL is mesh based and therefore no geometry format.

    I do not know that you can automatically convert it to geometry in Inspire.

     

    Best Regards,

    Mario

    Geometry Formats for Import

    ACIS (.sab, .sat): through R21

    CATIA V4 (.model): all 4.xx

    CATIA V5 (.CATPart, .CATProduct): R10 through R27

    IGES (.iges, .igs): 5.2 & 5.3

    Inventor (.ipt, .iam): through 2017

    JT (.jt): 7.0 through 10.2

    OBJ (.obj): Inspire will only read in mesh data from obj files.

    Parasolid (.x_b, .x_t, .xmt_bin, .xmt_txt): through 30.0

    Pro/Engineer (.asm, .prt): 13 through Creo 4

    SolidWorks (.sldasm, .sldprt): 99 through 2017 (We do not support files written from SolidWorks EDU Edition 2013-2017.)

    STEP (.step, .stp): AP 203, AP 214, AP 242

    UG NX (Unigraphics) (.prt): 11.0 through NX 11

    Evolve PolyNURBS (.pn): through 2017.3

     

     

    Mesh Formats for Import

    STL (ASCII .stl)

    Optistruct (.dat, .fem, .nas): through 14.0

     

     

  • Dung the most handsome man
    Dung the most handsome man Altair Community Member
    edited October 2020

    Hello,

    Thanks for your answer.
    I read this post: 

    https://community.altair.com/community?id=community_question&sys_id=5396447a1b2bd0908017dc61ec4bcb5d

    Mr. Rahul said that stl should be used as a template / guide to create solid geometry within Inspire. If the model looks easy to rebuild it manually, it's ok, but if the stl model is complex, what should i do to create the solid geometry?
    Thanks.

     

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited March 2019

    Thank you. this is helpful for getting Solid shapes form STl file.