POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : STL file problem : Re: STL file problem Server Time
30 Jul 2024 12:23:02 EDT (-0400)
  Re: STL file problem  
From: john
Date: 17 Feb 2009 15:42:48
Message: <178mp4t9o03bqrv77d9ur22ggcgjc68g7f@4ax.com>
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:22:37 EST, "Bill Pragnell"
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>john <@>ntlworld.com wrote:
>> A few questions.
>>
>> 1 Has anyone got a working version of .metatron.inc and if so
>> where did it come from.
>>
>> 2 Is there a windowns stl  - pov conversion program rather than
>> the DOS one.
>>
>> 3 On a similar theme how can you get .off files into POVray ?
>
>
>Can't help you with the first one I'm afraid, but Meshlab should help for the
>rest. Convert to .obj, then use the excellent PoseRay to get the .objs to
>POV-Ray.
>
>http://mysite.verizon.net/sfg0000/
>http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/
>
>A little convoluted, but should do the job!
>
>:)
>Bill
>

Thanks that helped a lot.  
Meshlab opend the metatron.stl file and from there I could get it into
pov with Poseray.

Should work OK with the off files as well

thanks


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