Re: [rp-ml] STL files

From: Caleb at Chinook Sailing Products <purchasing_at_chinooksailing.com>
Date: Fri Dec 08 2006 - 01:58:52 EET

....I believe the Cyberware PLY's are/were binary.....

-Caleb Walker
-Purchasing/Product Development
-Phone (541) 374-5005
-Chinook Sailing Products
-HiFly America

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----- Original Message -----
From: "steve" <sjbaker1@airmail.net>
To: "Caleb at Chinook Sailing Products" <purchasing@chinooksailing.com>
Cc: "Wesley Brooks" <wesbrooks@gmail.com>; <rp-ml@rapid.lpt.fi>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [rp-ml] STL files

> Caleb at Chinook Sailing Products wrote:
>>
>> Regarding the PLY format: It was also used as the primary mesh data
>> format for Cyberware 3D laser scanners & seemed to be quite robust.
>> Just from a software users perspective the files size was roughly
>> half what the identical file would be in the BINARY STL format. Also
>> it would seem to be be pretty easy write I/O support, after a quick
>> request to Robert McNeel Assoc, they had Rhino reading & writing
>> PLY the next day.
>
> Remember that there are also binary PLY files - they are yet smaller.
>
Received on Fri Dec 08 00:53:11 2006

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