Struggle with .step or .stl workflow

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zeuser
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Re: Struggle with .step or .stl workflow

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Thanks drmacro. Would asking for IGES or OBJ files be of any benefit here over the STEP files?
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Re: Struggle with .step or .stl workflow

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zeuser wrote: Sun Nov 22, 2020 9:25 pm Would asking for IGES or OBJ files be of any benefit here over the STEP files?
Step is probably the best you can get. IGES is similar, OBJ is worse as it is a lossy tesselation format (don't know about the wavefront obj format though).
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