


This can make models more difficult to work with, but thankfully there’s a great feature in Simplif圓D to help with that. Sometimes, a file has multiple solids that are all contained in the same file, like this rhino.

If it’s a completely enclosed surface, the software sees that as a solid object. You’ll notice the triangles all fit together to form a surface. If you toggle on the wireframe view from the right-hand toolbar, you can actually see each of the individual triangles that make up the model. When you import an STL file, it just contains a bunch of triangles. I can switch to mm and get a better output, but is still out by a few mm.Today, we’re looking at the Separate Connected Surfaces feature in Simplif圓D, which can be found in the Mesh menu. When I bring the model into Makerdesktop or Tinkerine Suite 2.0 (the printers I have access to right now), the come in at around 2000% less scale (closer to 2032%!). I just want the STL so I did not send it to a printer or anything like that and it is on Medium refinement. 125" thickness using circle and offset in Sketch mode. My current frustration is a very simple cylinder. It is getting to a point where these bugs are difficult to explain and solve on an individual basis for every learner. Now, that I am working in Fusion 360, it is even more tricky to manage as an educator since we use different software/machines from school to school and students are " learning" (which means loads of mistakes). I work in a school district on Vancouver Island and the few of us here have worked together here to find work-arounds (such as scaling to 1000% from Inventor imports). We have used Cura, Makerware/Makerdesktop, Tinerine Suite 1.0 and 2.0, and the software with Printrbots. This has been an ongoing issue for years now and I am finally entering the conversation.ĭating back to Inventor exports and now continuing with Fusion 360, when STLs were/are exported and then imported into 3D printing software, the scale was never 1:1.
