Nice. I tested a few things. Works very well. I'm guessing there is a limit on size or the number of vertices. Also, 15-decimal point coords is rather overkill. I wonder if there is a way to knock the calcs down to, say, 4 or 5 decimal places. Joe Weinpert skidrowacademy.com On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 7:13 AM Roger Whiteley via Discuss < discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Roger Whiteley <roger.whiteley@me.com> > To: discuss@lists.openscad.org > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2023 12:13:30 +0100 > Subject: [OpenSCAD] Re: importing STL? > As nophead says, a lot of STL's on Thingiverse and other places are > defective, and not just in their geometry. > > If there's an STL I can't be bothered to recreate with OpenSCAD, I use > an online converter to create an object which downloads an oject list of > points and can then be properly rendered when you hit F6, this means you > can create the object and modify it just like you would any other > OpenSCAD object. > > Here's the source, https://github.com/raviriley/STL-to-OpenSCAD-Converter > > And here's the online site. > https://raviriley.github.io/STL-to-OpenSCAD-Converter/ > > The results are very long lists of point coordinates - which are best > <include> as a separate file, it gives my rapidly ageing laptop a > headache and there's no point whatsoever trying to edit the points. > > N.B. I did find a way of self-hosting the entire application on a > webserver inside my network.. > > HTH. > > Roger > > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Roger Whiteley via Discuss <discuss@lists.openscad.org> > To: discuss@lists.openscad.org > Cc: Roger Whiteley <roger.whiteley@me.com> > Bcc: > Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2023 12:13:30 +0100 > Subject: [OpenSCAD] Re: importing STL? > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org >