[Sweeney]

I currently have Alibre Design CAD and MeshCam. Is there a way to eliminate and/or reduce the faceting that appears (and is ultimately machined) in MeshCam? I recently designed a smooth reflector (partial sphere) but MeshCam produces a heavily faceted surface.

Thanks!

[ger21]

Yes and no. It's not MeshCAM creating the faceted surface. Meshcam can only read faceted sufaces, which is what an .stl file consists of.

What you can do is change your .stl export options in Alibre to export a surface with much smaller triangles. This will give you a smoother surface, but never perfectly smooth. You'll need much more expensive CAM software to do that. Also, the downside to exporting a higher res mesh from Alibre is that it will use much more memory, and take much longer in MeshCAM. Increase size slowly to see the effects.

[Sweeney]

Thanks Gerry! ... got it cleaned up! I'll do some wax machining tomorrow.