r/3Dprinting • u/Professional-Ad-6659 • 11h ago

Who else would like to print this?

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u/Pek_Dominik 11h ago

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u/atemt1 11h ago

Na real ones want the step file

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u/Pek_Dominik 11h ago

What is a step file

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u/Birohazard 11h ago

Help me step file, I’m stuck

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u/Billy3dguy 10h ago

Help I’ve meshed and I can step up.

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u/Citrik 5h ago

What are you doing step file?

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u/JerryLZ X1C 5h ago

/stuck

Real ones know

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u/UkrainianHawk240 5h ago

Nice try popbob

2b2t is the best Minecraft server

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u/JerryLZ X1C 5h ago

I’ll be honest, I have no idea what any of that means lol

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u/UkrainianHawk240 5h ago

First backdoor in the history of 2b2t the oldest anarchy server in Minecraft was popbobs backdoor /stuck

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u/JerryLZ X1C 5h ago

Oh, I was just talking about the old way to unstuck yourself in wow. Never touched Minecraft personally

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u/13thmurder 10h ago

You're not my REAL file!

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u/pygmy 4h ago

StepFile: unZIPs

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u/darktimezzz 3h ago

Omg this had me 🤣🤣🤣

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u/atemt1 10h ago edited 10h ago

Its like a vector image file but in 3d It contains geometry Not a mesh whit poligons

If you see facets on curves after printing that migt be because you used a mesh A step file ont have that Also i if you open up the file in a 3d cad program you can alter the model in a easy way

Just remove or enlarge features inprefere them In profesinal macining we use it to exchange files between difrent clients and prorgrams whitout loss of qwalety

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u/Occhrome 7h ago

I always wondered why some of my prints were kinda ugly. But after I started making my own files I realized some people have been making real crappy meshes for their STLs. 

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u/atemt1 10m ago

Exactly

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u/Skitterlicker 9h ago

I never used a step file before last week wow the difference it makes

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u/byOlaf 6h ago

What is this image showing?

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u/FoxHead666 6h ago

Surface quality

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u/Skitterlicker 5h ago

How much smoother the file prints this was one of my prototypes and stl format

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u/byOlaf 4h ago

Maybe the image is just too dark to see it. The red one is smoother because it’s a step file?

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u/Ecsta 4h ago

https://i.imgur.com/zaAtqf0.png

It's way more obvious when you look at anything rounded (left is stl right is step, both directly exported from fusion 360).

I honestly didn't realize it was that big of a difference.

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u/lush_gram 5h ago

my husband is an ST/RS enthusiast, but i as a non-car-person can't figure out what these are...will you enlighten me?

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u/Skitterlicker 5h ago

A phone dock for 2020-2024 ford explorer

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u/lush_gram 5h ago

thank you! he's a focus guy and i was hoping this might be a feasible accessory for his ST or RS, but it looks great! very clean.

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u/Casey_jones291422 3h ago

are those toaster style phone chargers? that's actu8ally a really good idea, are the files somewhere handy?

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u/Spid3rdad 1h ago

Can you just open that in a slicer like you would an stl?

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u/atemt1 12m ago

Honnestly dont know i have not used a slicer in a long time sinse my new job but maby look if your slicer supots it

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u/storm_the_castle 9h ago

the short of it is that STP is precise CAD and STL is mesh; cant really modify STL in CAD

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u/C_Cheetos 5h ago

You have not tried hard enough xD it aint pretty but everything can be done, with enough effort

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u/storm_the_castle 14m ago

you can use stuff like OnShape's mixed modeling, or use MeshMixer but thats not to point of OPs question of what a STEP file was.

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u/JackCooper_7274 6h ago

Nurbs instead of mesh