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mj
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 Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 5:23 am Post subject: STL - 3D rprinting |
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Hi, I am new here and I have one question:
Is it possible to export the surfaces to STL format in order to print them?
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Hi and welcome to the forum.
K3DSurf and MathMod export to OBJ file format so you have to use third party program to reexport OBJ files to STL file format: Blender and MeshLab can do this and a lot more
For more informations: http://k3dsurf.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopic.php?t=204
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mj
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you very much for your answer. I have download the sofwtare and tried to export the example surface to .obj t check if I can open it with Creo Parametric. But I was not able to export the surface. thank you.
I am a math teacher looking for a software for my students to plot and print 3Dsurfaces |
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Hi,
| Quote: | | I have download the sofware and tried to export the example surface to .obj t check if I can open it with Creo Parametric. But I was not able to export the surface. |
Is it K3DSurf or MathMod you're using?
In both of theme, you have to click on one example provided in the examples list (the first Schwartz figure that appears in the beginning can't be exported)
Here are the steps to export to OBJ:
MathMod:
 mathmod_export by taha_ab, on Flickr
K3DSurf:
 k3dsurf_export by taha_ab, on Flickr
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mj
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| thank you very much!!! |
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mj
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:36 am Post subject: |
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It is great: following your instructions I have created an obj file and I have opened it with Creo Parametric (my usual CAD software). It works! Thank you.
First I was using K3DSurf, but since your answer I downloaded Mathmod. Which are the differences? |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:14 am Post subject: |
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Happy it worked for you 
K3DSurf has four ways of export:
isosurfaces: Triangles and N-gon (N >= 3)
parametric surfaces: Triangles and N-gon (N = 4)
MathMod has 2 ways of export:
isosurfaces: Triangles
parametric surfaces: N-gon (N = 4)
MathMod, however, can export more complex mathematical scenes, with multiples objects and in the near future, it's going to support more ways of export than K3DSurf
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