[ros-users] Error with *.stl format when using planning_environment and arm_navigation in unstable ROS version

[Mrinal Kalakrishnan]

Hi Felix,

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Felix Messmer <felix_messmer at 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