{"id":34139,"date":"2019-03-22T17:35:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T17:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/extract-internal-volume-from-stl-file\/"},"modified":"2019-03-22T17:35:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T17:35:33","slug":"extract-internal-volume-from-stl-file","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/extract-internal-volume-from-stl-file\/","title":{"rendered":"Extract Internal Volume from STL file"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am trying to extract the INTERNAL volume using SpaceClaim from an STL file I exported from Mechanical.&nbsp; I open the STL and then convert to solid.&nbsp; When I try to use: Prepare -&gt; Volume and then get the internal volume it doesn&#8217;t seem to grab the internal volume like in the tutorials.&nbsp; Rather it grabs the volume of some of the parts.&nbsp; I have attached the STL file in a zip since STL is not allowed.&nbsp; Can anyone tell me how to get the internal volume to this part??<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-34139","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["6311"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["1919"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["34139"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_engagement":["62","162192"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["4"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["81563"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["81563"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-03-28 07:28:21"]},"test":"ansysuser"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/34139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/34139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}