the bounding box is still terrible, any word on getting that fixed? Or just like geometrically correct STL’s in general? Paid for CC Pro again and I’m feelin a bit cheesed since the 806beta thread the question was asked and it was touted and it was supposed to be good.
Is there any way to get the kind of accuracy I need without additional programming that would give pro enough value outside of being artsy?
edit: there are only nominal values up to 3 decimal places and all of the angles are either 90deg or holes
Can you share the STL? I’ll pull it up in NX & analyze it for you.
In my limited experience with CC and STL, I’ve noticed the quality of the STL greatly affects the outcome.
Add to that the 3D format in CC is a digital height map, so on import the STL which is an approximation gets converted to a height map and the tolerance I believe is based on the overall size. i.e. the larger the part, the larger the ‘voxels’ being represented by the shaded height map.
For those reasons, I only use 3D for actual 3D portions of a job. Sloped, slanted, rounded surfaces, or fully contoured shapes and sculptured surfaces. Anything that can be achieved with 2D gets designed & cut as 2D, which is using precise geometry.
STL import takes the STL triangle description of the 3D surface and maps it to a pixel image — the dimension of the pixel image is determined by Model Resolution in Job Setup:
