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castillor
Posts: 74

STL_MESH_MANAGER binary format

Hi,

 

Is there any way to instruct the STL_MESH_MANAGER to output the file in STL binary format? Thank you.

 

Regards,

Raymond

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asdf
Posts: 93

Re: STL_MESH_MANAGER binary format

Hi Raymond

 

The STL_MESH_MANAGER was originally written as code to demonstrate the type of things you could do with a mesh manager and distributed to customers as source code.  I don't think it has been industrialized, so I would caution against using it in a critical application.

 

I just looked over the code for STL_MESH_MANAGER.  It is hardcoded to write the output to stdout.  Concievably one could redirect stdout to a binary file.  There is one other problem with this though: I think the STL standard might be different for binary files and text files.

 

hope this helps

 

Eric Zenk

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castillor
Posts: 74

Re: STL_MESH_MANAGER binary format

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Thanks Eric