{"id":54848,"date":"2017-07-21T18:17:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/54848\/"},"modified":"2017-07-21T18:17:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T18:17:43","slug":"54848","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/54848\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: How to work with STL file?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">The best way to work with STL files is to import the STL file into ANSYS Spaceclaim and then convert into a CAD geometry file such a Parasolid. The CAD geometry can then be used by ANSYS Mechanical and other ANSYS simulation products.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">Note that generally *.STL files are not able to capture geometry appropriately and ANSYS Spaceclaim helps to repair the .STL file if needed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-54848","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/54848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/54848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}