One of my favorite options is being able to use Convert to Mesh Body (used to convert standard solid bodies to mesh) and Combine to perform Boolean operations. The slicing tool extracts cross sections directly from the mesh body for getting profiles and references to organic and complex shapes. Surface From Mesh can be used to extract primitive surface bodies (planes, cylinders, cones, spheres) from a mesh to be used as a reference or as part of your design. Even without using any special tools or features, SOLIDWORKS can now reference mesh geometry directly for sketch relations, allowing you to “trace” the mesh or build geometry around mesh bodies. Some tools may be familiar, such as Move/Copy Body and Scale, while others are specific to Mesh Modeling such as Surface from Mesh or Slices. The Mesh Modeling tab of the CommandManager (found by right-clicking a current CommandManager tab and selecting Mesh Modeling from the list) collects all of the tools that can be used to manipulate mesh data. While the amount you can truly edit a mesh body is limited, it does give you great options for utilizing mesh data in standard SOLIDWORKS parts or assemblies. In SOLIDWORKS 2018, mesh modeling functionality was added to all versions to allow some utilization of mesh files.
Convert mesh to geometry meshlab series#
These file types generally save geometry as a series of connected triangles (also known as tessellations) and usually cannot be edited by standard SWX features.Ĭapabilities: Reference vertices of mesh triangles, boolean operations (add/subtract/common), extract primitive surfaces and curvesĬapabilities: Edit/clean-up mesh, Extract organic or prismatic surfaces and curves, perform deviation analysisĪvailability: Separately purchased SOLIDWORKS Add-inĬapabilities: Create mesh from Scan Data, Advanced mesh editing and clean-up tools, Advanced surface and curve extraction, perform deviation analysis SOLIDWORKS Mesh Bodies
Mesh data is saved in a variety of file formats, the most common being STL, though you may have run across a number of others (.obj.
Have you ever received an STL file from a customer or colleague and been asked to work with it in SOLIDWORKS? Or have you ever received data from a 3D scanner? If so, then you have probably been left wondering, "How do I work on this in SOLIDWORKS and why can I not use my regular tools and features?" In today’s article, we are going to look at three different tool sets that can be used to work with mesh data.
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