[Gmsh] STL file
Christophe Geuzaine
cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Thu Oct 22 19:57:59 CEST 2009
Christophe Geuzaine wrote:
> 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.
I've added a small hack in our import routine so that it should work
even with bad headers. Give tomorrow's nightly snapshot a try.
>
> 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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