eag
Active Member
Hey everyone... I got into 3d printing mostly due to reefing - printing parts for my tank and WC station is great!
My laptop is a Chromebook, and that is where I do my modeling and printing. It has been slightly challenging finding a workflow that is 100% web-based, but I think I've managed to get most of it sorted over the last several months. There's only one challenge left that I haven't been able to effectively solve: editing STL files.
I primarily use Sketchup for modeling. I upgraded to a paid version so that I could import STL files, but it comes with all that extra geometry and is a real pain, and often a waste of time, to clean it up manually. I see that there is a plugin to do this, but it doesn't work with the web version.
I've also used Tinkercad once or twice, which is slightly better... it seems to clean up most of the superfluous lines, but it almost always results in holes and other imperfections in the model.
Does anyone here know of a better way to do this in a browser? Even if it's downloading the STL, then sending/uploading it somewhere for processing to download in another format... anything I can do to get from an STL file to a workable model would be supremely appreciated.
My laptop is a Chromebook, and that is where I do my modeling and printing. It has been slightly challenging finding a workflow that is 100% web-based, but I think I've managed to get most of it sorted over the last several months. There's only one challenge left that I haven't been able to effectively solve: editing STL files.
I primarily use Sketchup for modeling. I upgraded to a paid version so that I could import STL files, but it comes with all that extra geometry and is a real pain, and often a waste of time, to clean it up manually. I see that there is a plugin to do this, but it doesn't work with the web version.
I've also used Tinkercad once or twice, which is slightly better... it seems to clean up most of the superfluous lines, but it almost always results in holes and other imperfections in the model.
Does anyone here know of a better way to do this in a browser? Even if it's downloading the STL, then sending/uploading it somewhere for processing to download in another format... anything I can do to get from an STL file to a workable model would be supremely appreciated.
