Help this Forum Grow by File Sharing!!!

[Steve knight]

I have a bunch of vcarve files to share. there are a lot of ones that are not really named well but the price is right. right now I will use dropbox to share a large zip file. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1939753/vcarve%20files.zip it is 127 megs.

[James Jaragosky]

All rightie then, let's try this! Can you guys import/open it? I attached a .jpg for comparison.

I can open it with Cut 3d and it looks fine. But it is incomplete when I open it with aspire. I only get some of the body and none of the holes.
Jim J.

[Dennis OBrien]

I had that same problem when I opened the original file, but when I selected the "background" as "Back" it opened OK in Aspire. Try it and see if it works for you.

If it does, do we have an Aspire expert who can tell us why selecting background as back works in this case and how we can be sure we select the correct background when opening an STL file so that we "get it all" as designed?

Maybe a question more appropriate for the Aspire forum?

Dennis

[james mcgrew]

it has to be in the working plane to enter aspire, it will open complete in cut 3d because it is the entire file, in aspire it is simply a component

[Bob Savage]

No fowl language is permitted, unlike other forums.

But what if the project really does taste like chicken, can we use fowl language then?

Good idea on the file sharing. The engraver forum is definitely rocking.

[Joey Jarrard]

ok, so spelling is not my strong point! just look at our gantry's CAM Master is spelled CAMaster.

[Bob Savage]

ok, so spelling is not my strong point! just look at our gantry's CAM Master is spelled CAMaster.

Well, I did notice that but assumed you discarded the space and additional M for efficiency. I know how you machine guys are.

[Dennis OBrien]

it has to be in the working plane to enter aspire, it will open complete in cut 3d because it is the entire file, in aspire it is simply a component

So selecting the background as "Back" puts it in the working plane so that it comes in to Aspire OK? Not sure I asked that correctly.

How's this. When I select the background as "Back" when opening the STL file in Aspire it comes in OK. So does that mean that "Back" in the working plane?

Make any more sense?

[Gene Crain]

Having a hard time loading zip files. Many stl files compressed are still over size, maybe increase the allowed sizes by 3...There are a lot of files out there...I got this one from woodweb, you will need to resize.

Gene

[Angus Hines]

Any file that isn't supported as a direct upload can be zipped and attached to your post. The real advantage of zip files is that they can be up to 2 meg files.
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OK I have a 3D file that when ZIPPED is 13.2 MB How do I get that up here !

[Joey Jarrard]

Ok there are some file hosting sites out there some charge for there service. I found this one http://www.filefactory.com/
they have a free service that makes you view a page of ads for 20 secs before the download starts. I have used it a few times and works well. After loading up the file just post the link file factory gives you. You do have to sign up but it works and it is free.

[Steve knight]

www.dropbox.com
this is a great free tool for under 2 gigs of files. it lets you sync files between computers (mac and windows) backs them up lets you share like I did a very nice tool.

[Richard Link]

+1 to Dropbox. Great tool.

Richard

[Dan Hintz]

Watch out for the sites that have limited download times... some of them delete any file that isn't downloaded for 30 days (sometimes less).

[Gene Crain]

http://rapidshare.com/files/40718649...mirror_stl.rar

36"x48"x1.5" frame