<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — find exact positions of parts of an existing .stl file?]]> 2013-09-26T21:06:33Z PunBB https://www.soliforum.com/topic/4051/find-exact-positions-of-parts-of-an-existing-stl-file/ <![CDATA[Re: find exact positions of parts of an existing .stl file?]]> OK, I've found at least one not very convenient way:

In netfabb, do a repair part.

Select a triange of interest.

Right click and say make selected triangles a new part.

Do an analysis of that (single triangle) part, which then gives you the overall dimensions and position, from which you can extract the info of interest.

A more convenient way would be welcome :-).

]]> https://www.soliforum.com/user/270/ 2013-09-26T21:06:33Z https://www.soliforum.com/post/37403/#p37403 <![CDATA[find exact positions of parts of an existing .stl file?]]> If I want to import a .stl model in openscad and cut some bit out, it would be nice to be able to find the exact positions of the bit I want to cut. Is there a good tool for doing that? Perhaps something that would let me select individual trianges and ask the coordinates of the points?

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