With CURA I had a plugin to automatically convert SolidWorks SLDPRT files to STL through solidworks API with simple drag’n’drop into slicer window. Miss this feature very much, it was very convenient.
One thing you can do is export STEP files from CAD. Prusa Slicer can process STEP files and Bambu Studio inherited that.
I use step files because they are true model representations and not just triangles. A model that is sliced from a step file can be more accurate because after converting the solid model to a mesh, such as STL, or in a 3MF (which only stores the mesh) you have lost some information. STL files can be created using a quality parameter which trades off quality for number of triangles, similar to JPG image files.
Yes, STEP is great, thank you for hint. But I’ve compared G-code, generated with STL and STEP files and both have arcs(G2). So it should be really minor improvement in case of FFF printing. Little better geometry, little less printing time, notthing game-changing untill we will be able to properly slice high order surfaces and print them with non-planar printing technologies.
But I was talking more about things to improve convenience. It was so many times when I forgot to recreate STL after I’ve made changes to original model. Painfull every time)
I also use the plugin in Cura for Solidworks and it was perfect, it simplified the work.
But for Bambu Studio I have not found a way to upload a sldprt
¿Does anyone know how this can be done?