Creating new appliances

Kerry Fullington · Post by **Kerry Fullington** » Sat, May 12 2007, 8:21PM

Al,
I have the Free Version of Intellicad if you would like it. It is no longer available but I kept the .exe after I upgraded to the full version.
It will do the conversion from .dwg to .dxf then you must open the .dxf in accutrans to convert to .stl
Kerry

Al Navas · Post by **Al Navas** » Sat, May 12 2007, 8:31PM

I accept your offer, Kerry - with a BIG THANK-YOU! That should do it, for sure.

Please let me know how I can go about getting it. WOW! That is a

offer, Kerry.

Michael Yeargain · Post by **Michael Yeargain** » Sat, May 12 2007, 9:04PM

Kerry,

Do you know of a way to batch stl to hsf? (free or cheep) I've done searches, But everything seems to be well over $200.00.

e_cabinets does convert but....

Kerry Fullington · Post by **Kerry Fullington** » Sun, May 13 2007, 7:44PM

Michael,
I haven't found anything to convert to .hsf other than eCabinets. I haven't done a lot of research on it because I like to texture everything in the Display Part Editor.
I used some of the viewers available from Tech-Soft but I finally got rid of them also.
Kerry

Michael Yeargain · Post by **Michael Yeargain** » Sun, May 13 2007, 7:47PM

I have 200 files or more, sinks, stoves, fridges, micros etc... and the problem I have is when I convert with Accutrans a DWG into a STL I can only texture the whole item and not individual parts ie... knobs or glass.

Any thoughts?

Paul Ellis · Post by **Paul Ellis** » Mon, May 14 2007, 2:49AM

Michael,
If you use Accutrans and you 'Save with options' as a stl (binary), have a look at the 'Flags' section. There you can tick the option 'Write one layer per file'. This gives you multiple files of the object which you can then take into the display part editor and texture seperately. It is quite a lot of work, but you can get results if you are patient!
HTH

Michael Yeargain · Post by **Michael Yeargain** » Mon, May 14 2007, 8:59PM

Paul,

I had only a few minutes this morning to try your suggestions. I will be working with it tonight. I am at the shop for a few days as my truck motor blew, (that blows) and I don't have a running backup right now. I seem to put over 300 mile a week on my vehicles and in doing so I neglect preventive maintenance. BAD thing and a BAD time.

Preventive maintenance is a GOOD thing.