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Offline GeoffreyGRoy

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DSM Export - a new plugin
« on: June 12, 2023, 08:35:06 am »
I have been experimenting with using DesignSpark Mechanical (DSM) recently to built and manipulate 3D models (for 3D printing).  I have found it useful to create a plugin for CamBam that allows selected shapes in a CamBam model to be imported into DSM as an aid to building the DSM geometry and further 3D model building.

This may be of interest to CamBam users.  Comments and feedback is most welcome. Probably CB vers 1.0 only.

Geoff

I am attaching v1.1 that includes an impro0ved way of handling Polylines in Spline mode
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Re: DSM Export - a new plugin
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2023, 10:22:03 am »
Geoff,

It also works on CamBam 0.9.8, also it's interesting that it's just a text file.
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Re: DSM Export - a new plugin
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2023, 08:41:33 am »
I have made some changes to the way Polylines are handled in Spline mode so that the Polyline vertices are taken as control point for the equivalent spline.  This may not produce an exact shape, it is easier to manage in DSM, and can be quite close if the number of Polyline vertices is large enough.

Geoff