On Thursday 04 June 2020 19:34:03 Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote: > What format is the original model? To convert to STL the model has to > be solid or "water tight". No missing faces and all one piece. A bunch > of solid parts 'glued together' can cause problems like what you're > experiencing, especially if the parts intersect. Other issues that can > crop up with 3D CAD files are disconnected vertexes and edges that > look like they're connected. Doubled lines, vertexes, and faces. > Backwards normals (what's supposed to be the outside of a face > specified as the inside) and various other screwed up stuff. I dread > having to work with stuff people have designed in Sketchup. The > software may as well be called screwup because of how easily people > can create bad geometry with it. > > Try this parametric pulley customizer to get a model that should be 3D > printing sympatico. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:16627
Thats what I am using Gregg. I think from a previous post of yours. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
