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How to export Lattice optimization results to STL format?

Hello Everyone,

I have produced some lattice optimization results and I was wondering how i can get these lattice geometries into a printable format.

The model is quite large with many lattice structures, so any sort of manual process will be infeasible. Thank you!

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Adriano_Koga

usually you will need some 3d party software, such as materialise 3-matics for that. It supports OptiStruct .fem as input.

kjc95

usually you will need some 3d party software, such as materialise 3-matics for that. It supports OptiStruct .fem as input.

Is there any alternatice to that software? I can't seem to get a license for it, and their trial version does not seem to have the option of inputting .fem files.

Adriano_Koga

what kind of output you have? is it a lattice composed of PBEAML elements? Maybe a workaround would be to build a script in HyperMesh to transform the beam elements into solid geometries and export it in STL, although it is not so straightforward.

Satyanegara

Hi /profile/97129-adriano-a-koga/?do=hovercard' data-mentionid='97129' href='<___base_url___>/profile/97129-adriano-a-koga/' rel=''>@Adriano A. Koga,

I'm facing the same issues. I have a lattice structure with PBEAML elements and the amount of lattice structure is too much to be done by manual work.

Could you tell me how to build a script in hypermesh to transform PBEAML elements to solid?

Thanks.