stl came in fine and matched what the customer had. So it sees the 12 as the value and the import doesn't know or care what it is but as soon as I changed my import option to mm the. The customer exported in mm and I imported in inch. I opened a customer model and it looked correct until I made a measurement and it was 12' the real measurement was 0.473 or 12mm. stl file (inch or mm) when opening the file and change it in your options to match before opening it to keep it at the correct values. Make sure you know what your units are of the. This next comment doesn't really have anything to do with how the Mesh Enabler works other than how you import then use the Enabler: You could also process this solid further by taking it into Inventor Fusion.Seems to work fine now after Rocky fixed it up. However this new base feature behaves as a solid allowing you to add in place features, such as holes. The end result is still faceted, like a mesh would be. The final result! A solid feature, ready for you to start working with.Īs you can see from the illustration, the mesh converting tool doesn’t do magic. You will be presented with a few options, including converting the mesh into a solid or surface, and deleting the original mesh. To convert the mesh into a more useful solid, simply right click and choose ‘Convert to base feature’. Select the file you wish to import, and chose ‘Open’.

In the open file dialogue, pick the file type you wish to import from the drop down list – or select ‘all files’. Once you have your test files, open Inventor and click on the big ‘I’. There are some sample files that you can download on the labs web site. Just unzip the folder and run the exe for your version of Inventor. EXE installers for both Inventor 2012 and Inventor 2013.

The download contains a zipped file with. The Autodesk Inventor mesh enabler preview plugin is available to trial until January 31st 2013 from the Autodesk Labs web site. Whop-de-do! but what next? Well – next up is the ability to convert those meshes into water tight solids. Autodesk Labs – Autodesk Inventor mesh enablerĪutodesk Inventor 2012 onwards can already import many mesh formats.

If you regularly need to use Catia, JT or STL files inside of Autodesk Inventor, then check out this new tool that might just help you out.

This week sees the release of a new tool for converting mesh objects to solids. The Autodesk Labs team just love to keep on giving.

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