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			<title><![CDATA[Re: question about design]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>thanks for this information.</p><p><a href="http://vexmatech.com/material.html">3d printing services gujarat india</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2016 09:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: question about design]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Well I am sure you are contended with information mentioned above.&nbsp; Furthermore, you can even take a look at this link. </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMP93x4XFeg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMP93x4XFeg</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2016 12:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: question about design]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>aclark1983 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>SolidWorks Premium has an &#039;Scan from 3D&#039; feature that might help you out.&nbsp; It is not the best tool for modifying STL files though.</p></blockquote></div><p>It&#039;s actually &quot;Scan <span class="bbu">to</span> 3D&quot;, and as far as I know, it only supports the NextEngine scanner.&nbsp; </p><p>When you buy a NextEngine scanner, you get a plug-in that enables this function.&nbsp; You scan the object, directly from within Solidworks, after which SolidWorks runs their feature recognition routine.&nbsp; </p><p>The process doesn&#039;t output an STL, it outputs an intermediate proprietary format co-developed by NextEngine and Dassault Systems, and once the features are recognized, it becomes at Soildworks part.</p><p>You can&#039;t use the function with an already existing STL.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2016 19:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: question about design]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>SolidWorks Premium has an &#039;Scan from 3D&#039; feature that might help you out.&nbsp; It is not the best tool for modifying STL files though.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2016 13:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>grob wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>If all you need to do is scale, you can scale and rotate parts in repetier-host after you import them.</p><p>Solidworks is not a very good tool for editing meshes (in fact, it just doesn&#039;t). For basic mostly aesthetic things, a combination of MeshLab and MeshMixer may help you make changes to the mesh directly without creating a huge amount more work.</p><p>Note that Pirvan is something of an expert on cleaning up scans for printing...</p></blockquote></div><p>For resizing, rotating, cutting and general cleaning of a mesh, you can&#039;t beat NetFabb.</p><p>For modifying a mesh and &quot;re-sculpting&quot; it I can&#039;t think of anything easier to use than MeshMixer</p><p>For applying global changes and filters (smoothing, down-sampling, colorizing or reconstruction meshes from point clouds (scanning cleanup &amp; reconstruction), MeshLab is the go to program.</p><p>Solidworks is a solid modelling program, and mesh manipulation is not what it does.&nbsp; However, there are enough tools in there to make some basic mesh changes, but they&#039;re not easy to use.&nbsp; These tools were intended to be used with surfaces, and they can manipulate mesh surfaces, to an extent. </p><p>But as Grob said, if all you need it to resize or rotate and object, you can do it in Repetier directly.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2016 04:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: question about design]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>If all you need to do is scale, you can scale and rotate parts in repetier-host after you import them.</p><p>Solidworks is not a very good tool for editing meshes (in fact, it just doesn&#039;t). For basic mostly aesthetic things, a combination of MeshLab and MeshMixer may help you make changes to the mesh directly without creating a huge amount more work.</p><p>Note that Pirvan is something of an expert on cleaning up scans for printing...</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2016 02:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: question about design]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>thanks for the information</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (valguerra)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2016 15:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: question about design]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>If all you have is an STL file, that may be a bit of a problem.</p><p>First of all, Solidworks has a limit as to the size of the STL, namely the number of triangles, is about 20K.&nbsp; depending n the amount of detail of you STL, that may exceed Solidwork&#039;s ability to import the STL as a solid.</p><p>You would have 2 options here.</p><p>1.&nbsp; import the STL into something like MeshLab, then reduce the number of faces by running a simplification filter.<br />2.&nbsp; Open the model in SolidWorks as a Surface body instead of a solid.</p><p>In either case, making modifications to the model may prove to be very hard if not impossible.&nbsp; If all you want to do is scale the object, that&#039;s simple enough, but if you want to modify it&#039;s geometry...well, good luck</p><p>Anyway to scale it, got to Insert/Features/Scale.&nbsp; The select Centroid and the scale.&nbsp; If it&#039;s to be scaled uniformly, then enter a value.&nbsp; For example to make the model twice as large, enter 2.&nbsp; &nbsp;If you want to stretch the model non-uniformly, then uncheck that box, and you&#039;ll be prompted to select different values for X, Y and Z.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[null@example.com (pirvan)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2016 22:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[question about design]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>I was wondering is there any tutorial in sizing a mask in solidworks?&nbsp; I have some stl file mask and am going to design some.&nbsp; I want to be able to scale it to fit and printed on my 3d printer.&nbsp; I have a davinci xyz printer.</p><br /><br /><p>thanks</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2016 21:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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