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I am trying to convert an architectural model ready for printing in 3D.  3 years ago I learned to export to Parasolid and then import back to VW so that I could convert to Generic solid.

This no longer works.

 

Is there a way of converting walls and other parametric objects to a solid format so that they can be exported to STL?

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1 hour ago, Norge said:

I am trying to convert an architectural model ready for printing in 3D.  3 years ago I learned to export to Parasolid and then import back to VW so that I could convert to Generic solid.

This no longer works.

 

Is there a way of converting walls and other parametric objects to a solid format so that they can be exported to STL?

 

I just did some quick testing and walls will export to STL as is. I also tried selecting a group of walls and creating a solid addition. However when I brought them into software to check the integrity of the STL there were a lot of individual shells, some of which weren't closed. It looks like VW doesn't deal very well with walls and converting them to other things. @Jim Wilson in your 3d printing tests, did you work with walls?

 

Kevin

 

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No, nearly all solid additions, subtractions, extrudes, sweeps and shells in most of my stuff. I did print a few whole buildings, but the problems i saw were mostly to do with lack of support during printing, not with the walls themselves.

The slicer I use mostly, Cura, does do a lot of model fixing automatically, it possible I had issues I never noticed that the slicer smoothed over.

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I must be doing something wrong.  If I take a 4 simple walls in a box 10m x 10m, with some windows in it and export straight to STL, open in Cura and then scale it down to 1%, then there are no objects visible in Cura.  Maybe I don't know enough about Cura?  or should I scale it down in Vectorworks first?

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