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STL vs STEP — Which File Should You Send to Your Manufacturer?

Photo by Daniel Smyth / Pexels Last month a client sent me his part as an STL file. He wanted me to make the hole 2mm wider. I had to tell him the bad news: I couldn’t just edit the hole. His entire model was a mesh of triangles. No dimensions. No feature tree. No […]

Hand-drawn pencil sketch of a bracket transforming into a 3D CAD model on a laptop screen — the sketch-to-CAD process visualized

How to Convert a Sketch Into a 3D CAD Model for 3D Printing or Manufacturing

Leave a Comment / 3D Modeling, 3D Printing, CAD Design / Ahmed Essawy

From a rough sketch to a precision SolidWorks model — the MiniCAD process. Photo: Tima Miroshnichenko / Pexels You have an idea. Maybe it is a sketch on the back of a napkin, a pencil drawing with rough dimensions, or a photo of an existing part you need to replicate. The question is: how do

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STL vs STEP — Which File Should You Send to Your Manufacturer?

How to Convert a Sketch Into a 3D CAD Model for 3D Printing or Manufacturing