Hi again,
Yesterday I had an issue with mesh settings resulting in weird display, and thankfully this was resolved, only to lead into a much bigger issue for me when exporting to STP.
My workflow is to resurface laser scans then chop out shapes with Wirecut and finally do a few boolean operations to remove shapes from the closed polysurface as seen below:-
The final surface is then exported to stp using the automotive option
Having done this countless times in V5 Rhino, I am at a loss as to why, after upgrading to V7, my stp files are incomplete, missing surfaces and also showing evidence of the polysurfaces used in the previous booleans. When opened in Mastercam, which I use to complete the maufacturing files, you can see the additional “features”
The strange thing is, if, from V7 I save the original file as V5, and open it in V5 and export to stp, when opened in mastercam the model is perfect, as seen below
I can’t be flitting backwards and forwards between Rhino versions. I lost a lot of time on this yesterday and am seriously hoping that its just some setting tweaks that I’ve overlooked. In the stp export options I’ve gone through every single configuration and it’s just not working for me.
Please help, I’m going out of my mind