Re: STL-Color file format specification

From: Marcus Joppe (mjoppe@marcam.de)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 15:26:08 EEST


Paul,

attached you will find a colored STL file for testing the STL color extension.
It contains a simple cube with colored faces (red, green, blue, yellow, black
and white). Further example files can be downloaded from the our website at
www.marcam.de.

Please do not hesitate to contact us, if you need any further help or
assistance.

--
Best regards

---------------------------------------------------- Marcus Joppe Marcam Engineering GmbH Managing Director Fahrenheitstraße 1 D-28359 Bremen Tel.: +49 (0)421/2208-336 eMail: mjoppe@marcam.de Fax: +49 (0)421/2208-337 ----------------------------------------------------

Paul Besl schrieb:

> Marcus, > > Thanks for this valuable information. > Is there a small test file to validate > the colors are coming thru correctly > in a given STL reader? Thanks for any > info. > > - Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi [mailto:owner-rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi]On > Behalf Of Marcus Joppe > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:16 AM > To: Rapid Prototyping Mailing List > Subject: Re: STL-Color file format specification > > Dean, > > attached you will find a specification for the STL format to use colour > information which has been published to the rp-ml sometime ago. > > Within the STL binary format each triangle is defined by a section of > 50Byte. > The first 48Byte are used to describe the geometry information of the > triangle (triangle normal and points). The remaining 2Byte in the attribute > count are reserved for further information, but the interpretation of this > information is undefined within the "original" STL specification (should be > set to zero as default). > > For every triangle the colour information is described in the attribute > count > (16 bits). > bit 15 always 1 (to distinguish from normal stl files) > bit 10 to 14 intensity level for red (0 to 31) > bit 5 to 9 intensity level for green (0 to 31) > bit 0 to 4 intensity level for blue (0 to 31) > In this way there are 32768 different colours. > > We are using this extension within our VisCAM RP software and we know that > others like TNO and BMT are using the colour extension in the same way. But > since there is no "official" standard for colour within the STL format yet, > others can use different extensions. > > -- > Best regards > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Marcus Joppe Marcam Engineering GmbH > Managing Director Fahrenheitstraße 1 > D-28359 Bremen > Tel.: +49 (0)421/2208-336 > eMail: mjoppe@marcam.de Fax: +49 (0)421/2208-337 > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Dean Coe schrieb: > > > Does anybody on the list know where I can find the technical spec for the > > "color" STL file format? > > Thanks to all for your anticipated help > > > > Dean Coe > > Sanders Design International > > > > For more information about the rp-ml, see http://rapid.lpt.fi/rp-ml/ > > For more information about the rp-ml, see http://rapid.lpt.fi/rp-ml/

-- Mit einem freundlichen Gruß aus Bremen

---------------------------------------------------- Marcus Joppe Marcam Engineering GmbH Geschäftsführer Fahrenheitstraße 1 D-28359 Bremen Tel.: +49 (0)421/2208-336 eMail: mjoppe@marcam.de Fax: +49 (0)421/2208-337 ----------------------------------------------------


For more information about the rp-ml, see http://rapid.lpt.fi/rp-ml/



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