[Gmsh] STL file

[Christophe Geuzaine]

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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