FreeCAD 0.19 - Converting STL files to Solid models

Thank you, very helpfull video, simple and quick 🙌

I have a 3d scan of an engine block and I am now completely bald LOL

This was a very helpful and well-balanced tutorial. Thanks very much.

When i click convert to solid
It shows " cannot convert because shape is not a shell"
Can you help me with this

This should be an area where future AI enhancements tied to CAD should get us what we want.

why does it not do anything when I click convert to solid?

mine says cannot convert because shape is not a shell ?

Any tips for if the program keeps crashing?

i would just make a mesh of it Lol

even after refining my geometry is showing meshes . why is this happening please help

Be far better to pull up an stl that cant be solidified as it has too many points...
Then you get to show what "decimate" does.

Took me a while to figure that one out.

Why can't any software remove the faceted/mesh from models and leave them smooth? Not sure why this is not a thing. ??🤯

This was a great deal of help for me. I only downloaded FreeCAD because I needed a way to turn OpenSCAD models into CNC router toolpaths, and yours was the first tutorial I found that I could actually follow. I learned more than I really wanted to, but thank you.

for me was enough

Need a little help guys, i cannot convert any mesh in to solid - there is error stating that the object is not shell. What to do?

Here’s my thought on the macro. I noticed that the macro contains .obj as the mesh variable. Not all stl files are obj defined which is why I think you’d be getting errors on some stl files. I could be wrong. But it’s just a theory.

Thanks for the video but that doesn't work for me. The choice "create shape from mesh" is grey (i selected of course the model and I'm on part)

This is fantastic! I just got a 3D scanner and want to scan a sculpture I've made and turn it into an animatronic. Being able to bring it into FreeCad and hollow it out, manipulate it, etc is wonderful.

Thanks, my cad kept crashing. And this fixed it.

So I downloaded this animated car a Mazda miata and when I opened the file in free cad it is 500 mesh pieces.. how would I even begin to stitch them into 1 solid 3d printable piece? There is so many errors. Is there a way you can just like sketch a mesh around the thinglike wrap 1 big mesh? Instead of combining every part? I can just fill the inside?

I don't have part menu.

on the tolerance processing speeds, in my case it's perfectly normal: a smaller tolerance takes longer to process. My mesh is a somewhat complicated boat from a computer game.

Hey, when i use the clipping plane, i see the inside of the final body is empty, can someone explain to me why ?

I found that the up/down arrows for sewing tolerance went from 1-10 integers. Increasing the number increases computational time a lot. On that basis alone, a higher number should give better results.

tHANKS

I watched this tutorial a few months ago, selected a converting tolerance of 0.01, it is still computing to this day.

AWESOME !!! Very clearly described procedure. Best of all, it works --- even for some of my complex STL files. Thank you --- you've saved me countless hours and a lot of frustration.

I have a dumb question. I have FreeCAD 0.19 installed (Windows) and I don't have the same menus, no tool window, what am I missing here?

It took me 1.5 hours to do the first 3.5 minutes but I got the hole! Thanks. I went super slow and finally did it right. Your presentation is solid.

THANKS!

I need help, the tolerance sewing by default is 1, and is not allowing me to choose blow 1?

how many is a lot of faces for freecad? maybe this is why I stopped using freecad before. I have today 9800 and it is taking a very long time.

Thank you so much for this video! I have been looking for days on how to convert a mesh to soild that can actually save to a .step file!

The mesh repair tool didn't delete half of the model there... It appears the normals were simply flipped

I want to 3d print model

For everyone having issues decreasing the sewing tolerance, go to edit – preferences – units and increase the number of decimal to 3. This worked for me.

the lowest tolerance mine will let me use is 1. not .1. I can't go below 1

FreeCad wont let me change from 1 to .1

this is great help! the issue I have is I am trying to import an item into an existing project yet I'm having problems with the angles as the STL is set to one plane and I can't seem to set it to a new plane so to have both models have the same angle? any ideas here?

How do you get the create shape from mesh to be less than 1?

Nevermind. The command still isn't working.

So I may have just found a workaround for my problem. I went to General under Preferences and chose Part as the module/workbench to load after startup and now I have a Part menu on my menu bar. It still doesn't appear as an option in the workbench dropdown.

I can't get the Part workspace to open/load. I go to edit/preferences and add workbench Part but it comes in as Part Design. So I can't seem to get to the Create Shape From Mesh Command. I don't see what the issue would be as it Says Part in workbenches and there's a separate workbench for Part Design.

the ONLY tutoriall that explained create body step !!!! FInally i can edit ffs !

Thanks for this. I just wish I had a more powerful computer. 🙄 I get "input vector has zero zoom" when I try to make refined copy. 😥

Andrew I use Solidworks in my professional and hobby life Importing stl files is a total pain have you any tils ?