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Thread: volume of an STL?

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    Default volume of an STL?

    Can anyone suggest a way to calculate the Volume of an STL? As in how much silver will it take to cast a shape.
    Thanks!
    SG

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    Export the solid to AutoCAD.

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    If you ant, send the file to my mail, maybe I can help you

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    I think both Netfabb basic and meshmixer will calculate volume.
    Ron Sloan

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    You can do it with Aspire as well.

    It is an undocumented feature that is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate so given the price of silver......
    The answers to a lot of questions can be found at http://www.shopbottools.com/ShopBotDocs/ or http://support.vectric.com/

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    Steve, if you have Aspire, you can hi-lite your model and press CTRL+ALT+Shift+V and a pop-up window should come up with a close approximation, I think within about 1%. Keep your pointer arrow within the model itself...joe I see Adrian beat me to it...joe

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    The guy I’m helping has Aspire 3.5, CTRL+ALT+Shift+V does nothing...
    Freddy. check your PM!
    Thanks
    SG

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    Use Ctrl-Shift-D in Aspire 3.5.

    Tim

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    Thanks Tim, that did it!
    SG

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