On 7/27/2017 9:58 AM, omniverse wrote:
> Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:
>> On 27-7-2017 8:45, Sven Littkowski wrote:
>>> Hi, there is the NASA 3D Resources website, offering various vehicles
>>> and planetary landscapes as 3D models, formats OBJ and STL.
>>>
>>> 1. Is there any OBJ to POV converter?
>>>
>>> 2. I tried to convert the Martian and Lunar landscapes (STLs) to the
>>> POV-Ray format, using STL2POV:
>>> command line: "stl2pov -s InputFile.stl >OutputFile.inc".
>>> It reads STL files, and creates a POV-Ray mesh and saves that file as
>>> INC. But the result is horrible: instead of a block with a planetary
>>> surface, I get a block on the one side and a thin surface on the other
>>> side (90° angle!), and there are many holes in that landscape. Is there
>>> any better way to convert STLs into POV? I need a massive block with the
>>> landscape above, as I want to "dig tunnels" into it, too.
>>
>> For obj to pov, use Poseray: https://sites.google.com/view/poseray
>>
>> Which is - by far - the best converter.
>>

It is too. IME
>> --
>> Thomas
>
> And MeshLab  http://www.meshlab.net/  seems to be okay for the STL to OBJ
> conversion.
>

Blender does the conversion as well.

Thinking about it. If you use the PovRay exporter it must convert it to 
Mesh2 internally.


-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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