I made some step files for lasercutting through 24/7 tailorsteel. I exported them with the default settings and allso with all other possibilities. When i upload it to the lasercutting software it keeps saying that the geometry is wrong. At tailorsteel they opened and closed it in solidworks which s…

Hi Rene. No, I have not heard from anyone other than an auto-reply with a case number. I will try one more time, but without much hope. I guess we’ll just have to see if we can figure it out on our own. I believe you said that sometimes your files from Rhino are accepted. Can you send me one, ma…

Hi Chuck sorry for my late reaction, have been busy. None of the rhino .stp files made it through the end of the tailorsteel process. If i remember correctly files that were exported with origing got stuck later in the process. Does that make any sense to you?

Hi René. Earlier, you had said that sometimes TailorSteel recognizes the tube and sometimes it doesn’t, and in the cases where it does, later on TailorSteel says the geometry is incorrect. I would like to see examples of each case if possible. Maybe we can get somewhere by seeing the difference. W…

Hi Chuck, I have similar issues with my metal fab shop, who use Radan, and often have issues with Rhino STEP files either not ‘unfolding’ or radius being read as faceted features. Currently I work-around this - as I have neither time nor desire to learn Fusion - by modelling a ‘clean’ version of t…

Hi David. Sure. That would be great. You can send them directly to me, chuck@mcneel.com . Thanks.

I understand your aversion against fusion. So have, i but the only thing i have to do is open the .stp file in fusion and save it again as .stp file from fusion. After that tailor steel can read the file. Unfortunately they are not interested at all in investigating this problem. The only thing you…

Hi, I have instigated the step file: test02.stp All faces are BSplineSurfaces. For Sophia to correctly recognize the tubes the surfaces must be geometrical defined with Planer faces and Cylindrical surfaces: [rhino_bspline_surface_rectangular]

Thanks for investigating. Over the past week I have been working with a customer to solve this issue. The next release of the V7 WIP should make STEP files acceptable to Tailor Steel’s Sophia. As you said, Sophia expects all surfaces for the steel plate faces to be plane_surface or cylindrical_su…

Sometimes there are problems with improper geometry when exporting NURBS models from Rhino as STEP or IGES or Parasolid file formats, that are them opened in SolidWorks or Artube (a program for laser cutting of tubular profiles). One of those problems occurs with Degree 2 surfaces, such as simple 90…

Step file with incorrect geometry

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RH-50481 is fixed in the latest WIP

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Step file with incorrect geometry

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