Wrote up a bit on this at:
and also see:
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Okay, so I followed the exact steps, and these are the resulting outline vectors from each stl.
As you can see, they’re not the same. I don’t understand what is causing this. I only scanned one handle and then mirrored the stl. in Meshmixer to generate the second handle. I can live with the stl. not matching the svg. perfectly.
Trying to align the outline vectors to the svg is extremely difficult when they don’t match.
What did you have selected?
Are you using Carbide Create v8?
I created an online for each stl. with an offset of 0”.
Then I flipped one and aligned it to the center of the other stl.
I selected both stl vectors to show that they’re different.
Yes, I am using V8.
These two stl vectors are actually better than most.
Most of them aren’t even remotely similar.
OIC. You mean that you created separate outlines of the left and right STL files and then compared them.
The 3D modeling in Carbide Create Pro is better suited for decorative use — at this time, you should not expect a 3D model which is instantiated as a pixel image to exhibit the same precision and repeatability as a 2D vector.
You can probably get a slightly better result by making the Stock area as small as is possible (the pixel image is scaled across the largest dimension of the Stock), but if that does not yield a result which you consider workable you should probably use MeshCAM or some other more traditional 3D CAM tool:
I wasn’t thinking about it that way. That makes a lot more sense now.
I’ve messed around with mesh cam but it’s not as intuitive as CC for larger jobs. I typically run mulitpile handles at a time and, I already have hundreds of pallets made. I will just have to align them the best I can. I can also go back to using V7 because this was’nt an issue.