topic Re: Creality Ender 3 Pro - STL files and Archicad in Collaboration with other software

Creality Ender 3 Pro - STL files and Archicad

rob2218 — Wed, 27 May 2020 13:59:03 GMT

My lovely wife gave me an Ender 3 Pro from Creality. A 3D printer. I've been "LOVIN" it every moment I've had it.
I'm trying to create a 3d STL file from an Archicad PLN file. I use the 3d view, export out to STL but when I open it up in Cura (the software that allows you you to Slice an STL file) it appears strange?

I'm using a 3D Text converted to a morph object but the text comes out 100X larger than the components of the file itself...no matter how many times I convert the text to a morph.
Any ideas?
The "sign" portion comes in very small and the 3Dtext converted to a morph comes in HUGE.

Re: Creality Ender 3 Pro - STL files and Archicad

rob2218 — Wed, 27 May 2020 14:02:56 GMT

here's what it looks like in Cura.

Re: Creality Ender 3 Pro - STL files and Archicad

Barry Kelly — Thu, 28 May 2020 01:05:28 GMT

I have no idea what the problem may be - why it would scale morphs differently to everything else.
But have you tried not converting the text to a morph, or converting the whole thing to a morph?
Or magic wand a slab to replace the morph text.

It looks like only the number text is having a problem.
What is different about that compared to the words?

Barry.

Re: Creality Ender 3 Pro - STL files and Archicad

rob2218 — Thu, 28 May 2020 14:33:54 GMT

humm...interesting. Only the "numbers" are having the problem.
Yes....the only difference is that in the original...the 'numbers' are a larger font than the other 3d text-converted to morph objects.

I'll try your different techniques.

thanks,

Re: Creality Ender 3 Pro - STL files and Archicad

Minh Nguyen — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 06:20:24 GMT

Hi Rob,

Thank you for sharing the issue!

Unfortunately, I was not able to replicate this issue! In the pictures attached below, you can see how I export the model to STL and open it with a simple STL viewer. Everything was correct, therefore I am wondering if there's an issue with Cura. I'm not familiar with Cura, but have you tried with different export settings, or test with other STL viewer?

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Best regards,
Minh

Re: Creality Ender 3 Pro - STL files and Archicad

rob2218 — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:03:02 GMT

thank you Minh.
I'll ask others to see if they have experienced this issue.
Maybe it's a "scale" issue when converting an architectural units setting file into a millimeter opening STL file in Cura?