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Question: Uploading a solid from CAD into Maple and intersecting a line

Question:Uploading a solid from CAD into Maple and intersecting a line

frajola 15 Maple 2015
normal intersection import plotting stl
June 04 2015
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Hey there!

I uploaded a solid drawing from a CAD software (like solidworks, inventor, stl files, etc) into Maple using plottools:-importplot("drawing.stl"). 

Also, I know Maple can give me the normal vector (and point of intersection) using line and intersection commands, for example.

Now, is it possible to find a point of intersection (and the normal vector at that point) of a line that crosses the uploaded CAD solid?

I guess that to accomplish that, it would be necessary to somehow "map" the solid and that's the part that I am lost.

Many thanks!

 

 
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