Employment Opportunity / RFQ (Request for Quote).Education - Teachers and Students Hangout.Quick Navigation Uncategorised CAM Discussion Top and would be interested to know if it worked. it's pretty useful for coding the more freeform 3D stuff. īTW I have no affiliation to vectric I just use their software myself. I think there's a GOOD chance that it might ignore the flipped normals. Might be worth trying export of the model from LW to 3DS format and fire the cut3D free trial software at it. Cut3D coded it with no difference to one where I'd flipped the face normals to account for turning the model inside out. as ALL the faces were pointing the wrong way. In 3D terms this could/should have made the inside of the model invisible to the coding. happy to say that it was a successful test.

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