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15 Sep 2025 08:09:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Impossible stl file conversion!  
From: ingo
Date: 10 Sep 2025 10:25:00
Message: <web.68c189c7a068c28c17bac71e8ffb8ce3@news.povray.org>
"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "ingo" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>
> .....
>
> Yes, yes.  That's oranges to my apples.
>

Ah, misunderstood. No, the #read directive expects quoted strings, not just text
and thus fails straight away on the stl 'keywords'.

An annoyance of STL is that the number of faces is not given beforehand. Makes
declaring arrays hard or one has to do a two pass run and count faces.

A conversion script in a scripting lang is the way out.

ingo


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