I have had a little play with Meshmixer for creating supports but have not gone any further as I find the interface difficult and the help (that I have looked at) is non-existent – e.g. I understand 2D drafting and 3D solid modelling but I really do not understand anything about these mesh formats and the software that manipulates them. My research so far leads me to think that Meshmixer or Meshlab may be my saviour. Now this may be OK for a figurine but it is no good for engineering work or, in this case, medical work. You need to do things manually by doing it visually. You cannot detect any edges or planes and so cannot get at any dimensions. Solidworks will import the STL file but in reality you cannot do anything with it. The difficulty is that Solidworks (and most other modellers I am guessing) does what it says on the tin – it works with solids not with mesh files. But before printing I need to get the file/data into Solidworks so I can modify the design of the scanned part. I am assuming that this will come in the guise of an STL file. I have a project where my input will be scanned data.
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