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29 Jul 2024 14:23:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Error: No triangle in mesh.  
From: CAD-Andi
Date: 29 Apr 2011 16:30:01
Message: <web.4dbb1f4ee973f8efbf952ed30@news.povray.org>
"Thomas de Groot" <tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> wrote:
> Are you using Poseray for the conversion? If you do, and before you convert
> to POV-Ray meshes, it helps to work on the input mesh by recalculating the
> normals, weld the vertices, remove orphan vertices, etc.... You can do that
> there in the Groups section of the program.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Thomas

Thanks for your answer Thomas!
I'm using Paul Thiessen's vrml2pov converter because im using it from the
command line with some perl scripts. Using Poseray to get rid of orphan vertices
and for the suggested cleanup is a good idea. I'll do that if I run into some
really bad geometry. Thanks again!

Andi


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