STL's & Facet Bodies vs Convergent Bodies vs Unparameterized Step Bodies
I'd consider myself an intermediate NX user but I'm pretty lost on the difference between STL imports vs STEP imports. When importing an STL into an active prt file, typically my goal is to change parameters, but with the student edition of NX, you have to pick whether you want a facet body or a convergent body and neither seems to work the way I want. At least with convergent bodies you can extract (i think) an unparameterized solid body of your stl. But there are still some issues with doing things like extracting exact geometry from this body. Whats the difference in a convergent body, and a step file body? I'm pretty sure they're both just unparameterized. My question i suppose is how does NX intend for you to go about extracting geometry from non part files. thx