stl meshes (which is obviously 3D shape) or work with ViaCAD, convert beziers to polylines and then save it to. I simply need to tell my CAMBam program how the path looks and the only way I am able to do it is to work with. So I make a nice mesh, save as stl and all is nice and beautiful.īut when it comes to exporting a spline (which is needed for much faster 2,5D routing) to. stp files (with certain limitations).I've made a model in C3D and I need to transfer shapes to my CNCmill.
This file open well if open normally with the open menu or with drag/drop (both with. stp, the plugin said: Must be a stp file. stp and are not visible in the file selector.Ģ) after changing the file extension to. (saving and re-opening the file fix that)ġ) the files have a. the small labels at the left side of the layer name do not reflect the layer color. when using import, CamBam do not remember the last file path used to import (maybe it's a wish ?) the import STL is used from a while, but not the 2 others)Īfter kick test I get some little problems.
#Cambam stl code#
Nice idea ! the DXF import will be very useful ! (strange that Andy don't add this features if they already exist in the code !!.
#Cambam stl windows#
for each type of file, DXF, STL, STP or STEP, the path last used is saved in Windows Registry. Testing indicates that STL and STP files are imported to the currently selected 'active layer', so that's easy to arrange, DXF files seem to create or use existing layers of the same name they were created with.Ģ. There are two versions, one with threading (that's the one the attached plugin dll uses) and one without threading (it's been commented out to prevent Visual Studio reporting duplicate errors) I have also attached the project source file so those interested can see how simple it is. In the File menu it appears as "Import" then three options under that of DXF,STL,STP I therefore wrote this quite short plugin to try them out, please give it a try and let me know if anything needs changing.
These sounded like they would import geometry directly without the need to create separate cb files for merging. I know Jeff Birt wrote an excellent file merge/import plugin but I always wanted something simple in the "File" menu for importing geometry, so while browsing through,, of CamBam v1.0 I found the following methods Ĭ()Ĭ.STEPFile.AddToDocument()Ĭ()Ĭ2.ExtractGeometry()