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edi · 29th November 2014, 03:57 PM

Sorry for jumping on this thread, but ...

I also have a 3d printer and issues with stl conversion. Generally the scaling options of replicatorG is completely ignored for ac3d´s stl files, I always get the same size (ac3d´s original size). If I want to change the size I have to scale the bit in ac3d and reexport. But this might be a replicatorG issue and there is a workaround.

What affects me more is the fact that smoothing with +subdivision is completely ignored in the stl file. So if I draw a cylinder with 20 segments and press Subdiv+ several times, after my export to stl the printed object will still be a cylinder with 20 segments :-( What do I miss there?

29th November 2014, 03:57 PM	#5
edi Junior Member Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 10	Re: Going from AC3D to .stl Sorry for jumping on this thread, but ... I also have a 3d printer and issues with stl conversion. Generally the scaling options of replicatorG is completely ignored for ac3d´s stl files, I always get the same size (ac3d´s original size). If I want to change the size I have to scale the bit in ac3d and reexport. But this might be a replicatorG issue and there is a workaround. What affects me more is the fact that smoothing with +subdivision is completely ignored in the stl file. So if I draw a cylinder with 20 segments and press Subdiv+ several times, after my export to stl the printed object will still be a cylinder with 20 segments :-( What do I miss there?