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Solid to triangular faces?


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How can I convert the surface of my solids to triangular faces? In the past I did it by exporting to 3DS (if I remember right) and reimporting it, but AutoCAD 2015 doesn’t support any more that format.

I tried to export in STL format (it worked), I opened the .STL file in Inventor (it worked too) and I exported from Inventor in DWG format again. But opening that last DWG in AutoCAD gives nothing :( .

I am not up to date with this modern AutoCAD, the last one I used daily was AutoCAD 2006. Ca someone help me please?

 

Yhank you for the welcome!

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I know of a routine that will convert a solid to either 3Dmeshes or 3Dfaces. Would that be of any use?

 

Here is an image of a solid that I converted using the routine.

 

Sol2Faces.jpg

 

BTW...welcome back fuccaro. :)

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Couple of days ago I discovered XEDGES which will create a wireframe of a solid on top. This could be used in combination with edgesurf for creating meshes, not regions which will be result of exploding solids.

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Nobody suggested exploding a solid. We're talking a straight conversion from solid to triangular faces or at least that is my interpretation which is what I believe I show in the image previously posted.

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Thanks for the answers!

XEDGES just extracts the edges from a solid, I need something like "XSURFACES". To get the individual edges doesn't help me since I try to use the surface in a Lisp program.

ReMark, that program sounds good, may I have it please?

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This is the program description:

Sol2Mesh and Sol2Faces - convert 3DSolids to 3DMeshes or 3DFaces (VLX Lisp for AutoCAD 2011/2012).

 

This is where it can be found:

 

http://www.cadforum.cz/cadforum_en/dl_file.asp?ID=1444

 

This is a copy of the program which, in order to upload it, I had to add the .zip file extension although it is NOT a zip file. Download and rename the file by removing the .zip file extension and you are good to go.

 

sol2mesh.vlx.zip

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The program works just fine, thank you again, ReMark!

bjenk8100, writing Lisp programs sometimes I need to find out coordinates on the existing solids. If you try ENTGET on a solid, AutoCAD will return a list that only Einstein's brain can understand. Working with triangles or even with mesh objects is much simpler.

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