[Gmsh] STL file

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Michele Marogna wrote:
> i can't send you this file, it's confidential.
> i draw with solidworks another file, that give me the same error.

Wow, Solidworks exports binary STL with an ASCII STL header...

Change the first line of the file : "solid" -> "xolid" (or anything else 
than "solid", but with the same length), that should work.

PS : don't send confidential files to gmsh at geuz.org : this is a public 
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> 
> thank you very much
> 
> Michele
> 
> 
> 2009/10/22 David Colignon <David.Colignon at ulg.ac.be 
> <mailto:David.Colignon at ulg.ac.be>>
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     can you send us your .stl file to check it ?
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Dave
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>     baz1987 at gmail.com <mailto:baz1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>         hi,
>         i'm trying to open an .stl file exported by solidworks to gmsh
>         on ubuntu.
>         when i load the geometry, an error occured:
> 
>         Error : No facets found in STL file for solid 0
>         Error : Error loading '/home/michele/Scrivania/Biella-XF.stl'
> 
>         i run also dos2unix, but it still not open my geometry.
> 
>         how can i do?
> 
>         Thank you very much
> 
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