I second Razdan's opinion. A table of features will be very helpful. You
can have user and vendors alike to fill them out and send it to you.
Other features that are very useful for RP using STL are:
Shelling (making a thin wall from a solid object)
Thicken (making an open surface into a solid)
make manifold (automatically fixing a non-manifold surface)
fix intersections (automatically clean up self-intersections)
Ping
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi [mailto:owner-rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi]On Behalf
> Of Anshuman Razdan
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 7:36 PM
> To: 'Terry T. Wohlers'; 'RP-ML'
> Subject: RE: Best STL Repair Tools
>
>
> Terry
> It may help if you create a table of sorts so people can
> check the survey
> categories. For example:
>
> Handle Large size files
> Detects and fixes bad normals
> Detects leakage/cracks
> Feature size limit
> detects non-manifold structures and fixes them
> Ease of use like user interface - picking, showing where problem is
>
> etc... there are probably many more functions. That way it will be a good
> side by side comparison - ofcourse you may be looking for a overall
> result.....which can be tainted depeding on which functionality
> people have
> used.
>
> My 2 cents - as usual
>
> :)
>
> AR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rp-ml@ltk.hut.fi [mailto:owner-rp-ml@ltk.hut.fi]On Behalf Of
> Terry T. Wohlers
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 4:47 PM
> To: RP-ML
> Subject: Best STL Repair Tools
>
>
> Hello again,
>
> Some rp-ml postings generate many responses. That's been my experience.
> However, the recent one related to the best STL repair tools generated few
> responses. Neil Hopkinson of De Montfort University kindly shared his
> views. Thank you, Neil. Also, I heard from a producer of one software
> product. I find it interesting that more people are not using STL tools.
> In any case, I will try again.
>
> Which software product offers the best STL model repair
> capabilities? I am
> most interested in software that offers a high level of automation.
>
> Thanks, in advance, for your thoughts.
>
> Terry
>
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