To do so, it provides a variety of design tools and supports a wide number of 2D and 3D file formats including DXF, DWG, OBJ, PLY, IGES, STL, STEP, DAE, and more. It is a feature-rich software specially designed to build 2D and 3D models. FreeCAD is a free open source IGES to STL converter software for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
That will give you a 2D section through the mesh which you can export as. You can try Section on your imported STL and draw a horizontal line in the Front viewport at the right Z height.Special thanks to Ryan Calme for the first version of this tool, and for developers of the libraries used in this software. You can import STL files into ABAQUS easily.SVG-to-STL by Jean-Marie Favreau for ACTIVmap project, March 2020.
3- The last method is specific for ABAQUS. This method is quite faster than converting the file multiple times. 2- Hypermesh can also mesh STL files, and then you can export the mesh to your simulation software (ABAQUS) and conduct your simulation.
