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Re: Comment démonter un stl multi objets ? - 6 years ago

Bonjour, Quotetchitchou j'ai ce fichier playmobil.stl Pfff, l'auteur sur Thingiverse a compressé ses fichiers au format .rar Un peu tard, mais à tout hasard, ça pourrait servir à quelqu'un d'autre. C'est aussi possible de diviser un STL dans FreeCAD. C'est un peu contre-intuitif, mais la commande se trouve dans... l'atelier Arch (architecture). (Dans FreeCAD, un jeu d'outils dédié à une tâche

by NormandC - RepRap Groupe d'Utilisateurs Francophone

Re: How to edit Thingiverse STL files - 7 years ago

Adrian, Read the topic over again. The first post specifically asks about STL files (which is the file format overwhelmingly used on Thingiverse). All the replies try to answer the question. Reality check: if you want a simple answer you won't get any. Which is why this topic is 2 pages long.

by NormandC - 3D Design tools

Re: How to edit Thingiverse STL files - 7 years ago

What's FutureWorks? I haven't used SolidWorks in years. For personal projects I prefer to use open source software on an open source operating system. As it happens, FreeCAD (also available on proprietary operating systems ) can convert STL files to solid. Once done, you can export to STEP then import into SolidWorks. Just remember that an STL file is a polygon mesh, it does not have smooth

by NormandC - 3D Design tools

Re: How to edit Thingiverse STL files - 7 years ago

@ dronemaker92 It seems SolidWorks can import STL files directly. I'm surprised you didn't think of checking about this first.

by NormandC - 3D Design tools

Re: blender? - 7 years ago

@MechaBits, Blender and Sketchup are not solid modellers, they were never intended for 3D printing in the first place. Sketchup hides the fact it's a polygon mesh modeller under its user-friendly GUI, I believe that not being aware of its true nature is mostly the source of the problems its users have in generating proper manifold STL files.

by NormandC - General

Re: Mobile friendly forum theme? - 7 years ago

I agree, but your post would have been more noticed (and in the proper place) in the Administration, Announcements, Policy forum.

by NormandC - General

Re: Des fichiers STL plein d'erreur - 7 years ago

Bon, J'ai pensé à aller voir du côté de Thingiverse, car je sais que smartfriendz y postait ses designs. Et justement, les fichiers y sont plus récents, et une note indique : Quotesmartfriendz Updates 06-08: : plates stl was not manifold in slic3r. Now they have been repaired in netfabb basic. it works everywhere. Bref je te conseille de mettre à la corbeille les fichiers pris sur Github et p

by NormandC - RepRap Groupe d'Utilisateurs Francophone

Re: Des fichiers STL plein d'erreur - 7 years ago

Salut, J'ai vérifié le fichier individuel dans FreeCAD : Un beau STL mal foutu. "non-manifold" veut dire que le maillage ne produit pas un volume étanche. Malheureusement, FreeCAD sait trouver les défauts d'un maillage, mais ne sait pas les réparer (le bouton "Réparer" ne produit selon mon expérience jamais des résultats valables). Edit: je viens de télécharger le fichier .blend (Blende

by NormandC - RepRap Groupe d'Utilisateurs Francophone

Re: Faire une Smartrap - 7 years ago

Merci du lien MacDony. Je ne sais pas pourquoi, je ne l'ai pas trouvé hier...

by NormandC - RepRap Groupe d'Utilisateurs Francophone

Re: Faire une Smartrap - 7 years ago

@ tyros Serge a abandonné le projet? Ça date de quand ? Il n'y a aucune annonce à cet effet sur le forum Smartfriendz (c'est pas sympa )

by NormandC - RepRap Groupe d'Utilisateurs Francophone

Re: Faire une Smartrap - 7 years ago

@ tyros pourtant le forum Smartfriendz continue d'avoir de l'activité. @ cameleon Tu te trompes de personne. On n'a jamais communiqué que par ce forum, et la dernière fois devait être il y a au moins 2 ans.

by NormandC - RepRap Groupe d'Utilisateurs Francophone

Re: Software to make a simple box? - 7 years ago

Andrey For many of us the design process simply cannot be done by typing lines of code. Your code may be simple to you, it is gibberish to me.

by NormandC - General

Re: Faire une Smartrap - 7 years ago

Salut, Je crois que le meilleur endroit pour demander est le forum Smartrap.

by NormandC - RepRap Groupe d'Utilisateurs Francophone

Re: Browser based 3d parametric sketch based modeler - 7 years ago

Those are UNIX/Linux commands, cozmicray. They won't work on Windows. I'm not even sure that thing will run on Windows. I'm guessing you'd need to install Node.js first. After that, sorry can't be of help.

by NormandC - 3D Design tools

Re: STEP to STL with Free CAD Program - 7 years ago

As far as free 3D CAD software goes, there are not many choices on Ubuntu or other GNU/Linux distros. Apart from FreeCAD, there's HeeksCAD and BRL-CAD (not sure if there's a deb package available, and prepare yourself for a shock when you see its UI!). OpenSCAD can't import STEP files. Apart from these, there's Onshape which is not technically running on Linux, but in a browser (but who knows

by NormandC - General

Re: fermer un fichier stl - 7 years ago

Certainement, qu'on peut la dessiner, avec les mesures je te fais ça en moins de 15 minutes dans FreeCAD. 5 minutes supplémentaires, et je te fais une pièce facile à modifier dont les mesures sont contrôlées par une feuille de calcul (FreeCAD intègre un tableur). Bon, je fais le vantard, peut-être que ça me prendra un peu plus de temps... Quotetchitchou L'histoire des trois choix d'angle de

by NormandC - RepRap Groupe d'Utilisateurs Francophone

Re: fermer un fichier stl - 7 years ago

Salut kourou, Désolé mais ça n'est pas clair pour moi. Quotekourou bon je test sur ma Foldarap et ça ne va pas,je demande un gear externe de 15 dents et 10 interne pour une hauteur de 15 en mm seulement si je met ces valeurs ma pièce mesure plus de 55mm au lieu 27.5 mm demandé! Ça veut dire quoi exactement, « je demande un gear externe de... », tu demandes où ? Quotekourou comme dit plus hau

by NormandC - RepRap Groupe d'Utilisateurs Francophone

Re: fermer un fichier stl - 7 years ago

Il y a des services pro (Sculpteo, Materialise, Shapeways) qui proposent différentes technologies de prototypage en plus de la FDM : stéréolithographie (pas bon ici car trop fragile), mais aussi le frittage sélectif par laser. Ce dernier procédé peut produire des pièces de métal. Depuis la dernière fois que j'ai regardé, je suis certain que de nouvelles technos et nouveaux matériaux se sont ajout

by NormandC - RepRap Groupe d'Utilisateurs Francophone

Re: fermer un fichier stl - 7 years ago

J'ajouterais qu'à 27,5 mm de diamètre, ça va prendre une imprimante vraiment précise, une petite buse (0,25 mm ?) pourrait être nécessaire je crois. Je ne crois pas que mon imprimante pourrait imprimer un si petit engrenage avec suffisamment de précision... Mais ma spécialité est la CAO, pas le réglage d'une imprimante 3D...

by NormandC - RepRap Groupe d'Utilisateurs Francophone

Re: fermer un fichier stl - 7 years ago

Bonjour, Quotetchitchou Je vois pas bien où sont sensés être les 27.5mm Tu nous ferais une bonne photo ou un scan de la pièce originale sur une feuille à carreau, ou millimétrée, ou un truc du genre ? À + En effet, le STL fait 140,60 x 141,37 x 15,1 mm. (Ça ne forme pas un carré parfait en raison du nombre impair de dents) QuoteEffixe Attachments: open | download - essai pignon3 TES corrigé.

by NormandC - RepRap Groupe d'Utilisateurs Francophone

Re: What CAD software? POLL - 7 years ago

FreeCAD is my go-to tool. Actually I help people with questions on its use on the FreeCAD forum, been doing so since 2010 as well as contributing other stuff for the project. Quotethe_digital_dentist I use DesignSpark Mechanical but have also used OnShape a little. Lately I've been running into DSM's limits more and more, so I'm thinking of spending more time learning OnShape. I like being abl

by NormandC - General

Re: What Softwares are you Using? - 7 years ago

Shockley, what do you think of this mechanical design? Is that complex enough for you? How about this one: Or this one: Yet another: Animation of a progressive die design: Another animation: NiCr Hot wire foam cutter As for thermal, fluid... Some people are doing advanced work, but ATM it does require python coding. Go look at microelly's posts on the FreeCAD G+ community.

by NormandC - 3D Design tools

Re: Software advice... - 7 years ago

Hello Anthony, Are you aware that this forum is dedicated to 3D printing? As such, discussion on 3D design tools is focused specifically on 3D printing. I doubt you'll get advice here.

by NormandC - 3D Design tools

Re: Simple command-line program to convert 3mf files to stl - 7 years ago

Thanks for creating and sharing this lemgandi. I bookmarked your Github repo for future use.

by NormandC - 3D Design tools

Re: What 3D software can I use? - 7 years ago

This was most probably modelled in a polygonal modeller. There are many out there, some commercial other open source. The most widely used open source one (also most powerful) is Blender. I have no doubt it can do the image you attached, but I don't have the knowledge to do something like this. Brace yourself, this is not going to be easy, the learning curve is quite steep.

by NormandC - 3D Design tools

Re: Site not in english - 8 years ago

Quoteelwood127 I ran a full AVG scan, nothing showing. Ran Spybot and Regclean. Found 100's of registry errors. This site comes in english now. Saw that ***** has multiple sites associated with it. elwood127, it was unnecessary to scan your computer for viruses, as others said it's the website itself that fell victim to spamming, which is unsolicited or undesired electronic messages. Once someon

by NormandC - General

Re: Sketchup file to STL - 8 years ago

Quotethe_digital_dentist My level of paranoia isn't quite as well-developed as yours Quotethe_digital_dentist You may indeed be able to do things in FreeCAD faster than I can do them in DSM, but it didn't take me 6 months of daily effort to learn how to do them. I've been helping people on the FreeCAD forum for quite a while. Funny how some people can't seem to grasp the software and will say

by NormandC - 3D Design tools

Re: Sketchup file to STL - 8 years ago

Quotethe_digital_dentist CAD can be hard enough without adding all the problems that come with FreeCAD. If you're committed to open source at any "cost" (i.e. your time to work through the weird user interface and all the bugs) it's fine, but many of us just want to create a model with the minimal effort and don't care about philosophy. For one thing, FreeCAD's UI isn't any weirder than any oth

by NormandC - 3D Design tools

Re: Sketchup file to STL - 8 years ago

Blender is a polygonal modeller, just as SketchUp, under the hood, really is. These modellers produce polygon mesh models. Quotethe_digital_dentist Some Sketchup fanbois will say "STL files are polygons, so it doesn't matter if curves are polygons in Sketchup". But it does matter. While you're designing the part, you need mathematical precision and accuracy. Once the design is done, converting

by NormandC - 3D Design tools

Re: Problem with FreeCAD on Linux. - 8 years ago

Henrik, was my reply useful?

by NormandC - 3D Design tools