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Re: STL Import can not select edge geometry
Rojhat
STL Import can not select edge geometry
I am trying to import an STL file to be used as a solid body. When I import, onshape recognizes and imports the STL as a single surface with one large open face; however, I can not select the edges of that face for any of the "fill" surface modeling tool. Despite this, I can still select the edge when I am not in a tool menu, but as soon as I try activate the tool and try to select the edge, the edge is unable to be selected.
Is this an issue with the STL file? Is this an issue with the import?
Thank you for any insight!
Re: can I add extra truetype fonts to Onshape?
Then make a new sketch for each letter. Make a featurescript that accepts a partstudio with all of your letters. Then a text box and a height.
Have the feature replace/scale each sketch with each letter in your textbox.
similar to how beams can read sketches from other partstudios/documents...
Re: Can someone help me fix this model? It is simple - yet very broken.
there's a share button at the top that will prompt you to change permissions as needed.then copy paste the link. Feel free to dm me a zipped version of the stl if you want.
MDesign
Re: Newbie question about surfaces
The sketch face is basically a surface, depending on what you want to do next, this might be enough…
You can convert your selected sketch face to an actual surface entity using the offset surface feature (with offset set to 0).
Re: #TraditionalCADsucks
Having to update tweak some legacy stuff in SW today… I guess I'll know how well it went by the 31st!
Re: Plasticity 2025.1
The Y-fillet thing is built into Parasolid, so that seems like something that Onshape could add without too much heavy lifting.
S1mon
Re: Straight loft
@uldema ..almost certain the issue lies in your sketches…. From the pic posted it's apperant the bottom sketch has an extra line segment to it. Make sure your sketches have the SAME number of points (bottom sketch has the same number of points as the top sketch), then Loft will behave properly.
Re: Petition to open the Parasolid kernel source code
Why should it be open source? So people can mess with it in their spare time? Rather than professional software developers to make a good product? Should software people get paid for their work? CAD used to cost 10's of thousands of dollars for one engineer to have a workstation and the software, in the 1990's. Now it's $1500 per year and can run on a $500 computer, It's dirt cheap. The people that want it for free, are they going to give away their time for free when they design stuff on it? Are they going to give away their products for free that they designed on it?
Money makes the world go around. Don't let anyone tell you differently. Without money as the motivation, open source projects will be limited to a few hobbyists twidding their thumbs on the keyboard.