STL to STEP conversion

[[To...]]

I have a model that was an .stl file and was painfully converted to a .stp file, but is useless to me in Calypso. I have tried healing and it fails to complete process. Any thoughts?

Edited yesterday at 02:44 PM

[[Ma...]]

Have you tried conversion in Fusion?

[[To...]]

not yet.  thank you

[[Ze...]]

Hi Tom,

I don't know if it's possible to convert polygon-based geometry to unfaceted/smooth surfaces directly. I've never had any luck with STL files other than for 3D printing. It's a pretty old file type. If you figure something out, please post it. 

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 This has always been the holy grail for scanned 3d files but it does not currently exist (to my knowledge). I have tried the same, with no luck. 

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I have tried this with Fusion, it did not help.

[[Je...]]

The mesh modeling tools in Solidworks allow surface creation from polygons, but it's laborious and probably not a solution here.

In similar situations, I've had to redrawn the entire CAD, but I sometimes import the existing STL into Solidworks as a reference to sketch around.