>Craig Jackson wrote:
>> I scanned my face in on a scanner recently and got a file back in .wrl
>> format. Does anyone know how this might be converted to an .stl file
>> format.
>Craig - Is a wrl file a proprietary format used by the scanner that you
used?
>If so, it's possible that it outputs (or able to convert to) a standard
format
>such as obj, stl, dxf, or iges. Can you say what scanner was used?
>Terry Wohlers
Terry,
A .wrl - file is a Virtual Reality Modelling Language (VRML)
'world'-file !
This is the 3D alternative to the 2D - formal HTML.
For description of random geometrical objects there exists the
IndexedFaceSet - node within the specification.
This is very similar to the pointlist-node formats used in FE meshes, the
Cubital format and the Wavefront .obj file.
For more on this and for a number of hotlinks, see
http://www.biba.uni-bremen.de/users/bau/s2v.html
George Fadel from Clemson knows a lot on this as well.
With kind regards,
Juergen Bauer
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