Reliable Facet to Solid Converters? STL to STP

[TomD.inPDX]

Anyone know of a free utility that create solid STEP files from various facet files?

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[dschenken]

https://www.solveering.com/instep-purchase.htm

The free version does 3000 facets; unlimited facets is currently $20.

The version with mesh manipulation tools is currently $150.

See http://northernhope.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2013-08-11T15:15:00%2B01:00&max-results=2&start=6&by-date=false for a writeup.

[TomD.inPDX]

I found a means using FreeCAD. Not a straight forward process but I am quite impressed with how it handled it.

Current version is 0.14. I have it loaded on my Windows 8.1 laptop. There are some other very tempting modules included that may be worth exploring... including Raytracing.

I also found some interesting things in Creo when I open the STEP file. Changing a lot of the default settings has significantly different and surprising results.

More later... But Creo really should allow us to specify a crease angle for import facet files. This is what smoothes models in facet geometry.

[TomD.inPDX]

This came out nice with the exception of smoothing the surfaces.

These are step import surface models from FreeCAD. Only the face came in with IDD errors (6 easily fixed).

The object file came from DAZ 3D

The parts that are enclosed volumes will easily solidify. Parts with open faces have well defined edges.

Creo 2.0 asm file attached.