For those who are working with STLs - New Shareware Version of StlView v7.0
is available for downloading from:
Internet: ftp://ftp.cyberware.com/pub/stlview/
CompuServe: ACAD, Modeling Section; LEAP, Rapid Prototyping Section;
In a few days it will be also available from WWW:
Avalon: http://www.viewpoint.com/avalon/
My HomePage: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/igort/
I'm looking forward for any propositions on uploading it to any FTP sides
in Europe, Asia and anywhere outside US... Please contact me at
75034.533@compuserve.com
Below is a brief description of StlView, please, read, dowload, try and
register....
Best Regards,
Igor
StlView is a Windows(Win95, WindowsNT, Win32s) Program and Full-Server that
allow you to analyze, fix and embed or link 3D solid models inside or to
the document created inside your favorite word processor or other software
that supports OLE2.0 (MS Word, MS Excel, Write, Cardfile and etc.).
StlView allow you to view, analyze, Move, Copy, Merge, Scale, Mirror, Fix
Solids Boundaries, make Boolean Operations between Solids, that are
imported in StlView from ASCII or Binary STL (Stereolithographics) and 3DS
(3D Studio) files, and to export them to Binary STL, DXF, IGES, 3DS, VRML
and CLI format used in a lot of CAD/CAM systems, Internet and Rapid
Prototyping technology.
During that conversion you can investigate your solids by creating
orthogonal slices of them and writing them to DXF format, analyze 3D
coordinates of separate points and distances between them, calculate volume
properties, center of gravity, surface area, and interactively change view
parameters, receiving different perspective projection of your model. You
can save current projected bitmap images as BMP files for inserting into
other document or print it, Copy current image and Paste it to other
Windows applications.
You can create Eggcrate Support structures for Solids in your project to be
used in RP Manufacturing.
You can Scale Solids, transferring from MM to INCH and back, as well as
using other scale factors.
Move, Copy, Mirror, Delete commands provide basic operations, necessary to
position Solids in chosen Coordinate System and Edit them.
Merge command allow to work with more than one Solid simultaneously and
provide possibility of Boolean Operations between them.
Union, Subtraction and Intersection operations allow you to create
complicated solids from merged primitives.
Fix Boundaries functionality, that includes: automatic Filling Gaps,
correcting Triangles Directions, Fixing Topology and changing Triangles
Directions can drastically decrease amount of work necessary to correct
distorted Solid Model.
Drag and Drop File feature provide simple and convenient way of importing
files to StlView by dragging them from FileManager or Explorer and dropping
into StlViews’ window.
OLE 2.0 support allow to embed or link 3D solid model inside or to the
document created inside word processor or other software (MS Word, MS
Excel, Write, Cardfile and etc.). Security feature of StlView allows
password protect privacy of your embedded design.
Very fast improved Shading technique (up to 100000 triangles per second,
depending on hardware you are using), allow dynamically ‘play around’ the
solids, using convenient interface.
Very fast improved algorithm of STL reading allow you to read incredibly
large STL files, size of which are only limited by virtual memory of your
system. To reduce time of possible next loading of your Project or Solid
you can save it in internal SOL format, that is 2.5 times less space
consuming, so next time loading of it will be faster and you can save your
hard drive space.
StlView is supported for Windows 3.1 with Win32s, Windows95, and Windows
NT.
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