I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this quick video. I’m basically a hacker when it come to cad. But this knowledge will help me a lot this week with a current work project. I have to recreate components that were created in Blender and saved as .stl files. Because why would you ever need to change them? Thanks again!!
No parametric CAD software are built to handle mesh-files in a good way. And in my opinion mesh files should not be edited, try and find a STEP file of the design if possible.
With the Personal license there are no easy workflows. With the paid version you have the prismatic conversion of mesh. Or try to find the files you want in STEP format. Only projecting the mesh would give all the small lines of the triangle faces and not smooth arcs etc.
As a beginner, this video is extremely frustrating. I've gotten past the point where I've created and trace the sketch, but I am unable to extrude a solid. You don't show precisely how you did it in the video. To be clear, I do generally understand how to extrude faces from solids, but this is my first time going from mesh to sketch to solid. The sketch is made, but the only thing I can extrude is a surface, which makes the end product look like a cookie cutter rather than a solid face. I'm guessing my sketch isn't closed, but I have no idea how to do that without going through the complicated constraint process that you flew through. Is there an easy way to just join all the curves and lines that I made to trace my sketch?
If you have problems with constraints and other things in sketches I'd recommend some beginner tutorials on sketching. If I'd point out every constraint in this video it would and how to set them up the video would be 1 hour long, and there would still be missing information. Working with meshes and mesh section sketches are not easy if your are a beginner.
