Thanks a lot guys,
on a quick trial, changing the first word 'solid' into something else
seems to work.
I will have a closer look at that on Monday and also ask the which
converter was used to generate the files!
I'll get back to you.
Have a nice weekend,
Felix
On 2011-01-29 01:53, John Hsu wrote:
> Mrinal,
> Thank you for the info. I'll add a link to the ticket for records.
> I wonder what converter the author from Fraunhofer used to export the stl
> files :)
> John
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Mrinal Kalakrishnan
<
mail@mrinal.net>wrote:
>
> > Hi John,
> >
> > Here's what wikipedia has to say about it:
> >
> > "Because ASCII STL files can become very large, a binary version of
> > STL exists. A binary STL file has an 80 character header (which is
> > generally ignored - but which should never begin with 'solid' because
> > that will lead most software to assume that this is an ASCII STL
> > file)."
> >
> > So assimp may be doing the right thing. But since in the real world
> > there are plenty of binary STL files floating around that also begin
> > with "solid", it may be worth supporting.
> >
> > - Mrinal
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:37 PM, John Hsu <johnhsu@willowgarage.com>
> > wrote:
> > > It does look like the first few characters of arm0.stl starts
with "solid
> > > First_firstpiece", I guess somehow assimp is confused into
thinking the
> > mesh
> > > is an ascii stl instead of correctly seeing it as a binary stl?
Running
> > it
> > > through ivcon removes those characters too, but ultimately, I
think this
> > > deserves a ticket under robot_model:
> > > https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/4740
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > John
> > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Mrinal Kalakrishnan
<
mail@mrinal.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi Felix,
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Felix Messmer
<
felix_messmer@web.de>
> > >> wrote:
> > >> > Hi John,
> > >> >
> > >> > thanks for your reply!
> > >> > Our *.stl files are already in binary format.
> > >>
> > >> Make sure that your binary .stl files do not start with the word
> > >> "solid", because that would get interpreted as an ascii STL file,
> > >> according to the spec. I think the cturtle versions used to handle
> > >> this ok, but not the new versions. If this is the case, simply
> > >> overwriting the word "solid" with a hex editor into anything else
> > >> should fix the issue.
> > >>
> > >> Hope this helps,
> > >> Mrinal
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