mcjImportSimpleAsciiStl

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Introduction

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THERE'S A NEW VERSION THAT SUPPORTS ASCII AND BINARY

https://sites.google.com/site/mcasualsdazscripts8/mcjimportstl

This script will only import STL file in plain text format, aka ASCII format

And only if the file is formatted as a simple series of triangles

It's true that one could simply convert it to .obj by other means and import it

but lots of things are true

for instance it's true that this script generates a spherical UV map for the object

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History

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November 14th 2017 - Release

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Installation

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The zip package is found at the bottom of this page

unzip it in your daz content folder,

typically :

C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library

once installed, it will appear in your content library, under

The Daz Script will be found in My Library / Scripts / mcasual

Starting with Windows 7 if you right click on the downloaded zip file

and select the [Extract All ....] pop-up menu item

you simply browse up to your Daz Studio Content Folder

and the files will fall in the proper folder

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Use

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Click the DoIt button

select the STL-Ascii file ( .stl )

the script will produce an .obj file in the same folder as the STL

so you must make sure the .stl file is not in a wrote-protected folder

If the file is a binary format STL or is not a simple STL format, the import will fail but it should not crash your Daz Studio

The script generates a spherical UV map and looks OK if the object is centered at 0,0,0

the Binary-STL piggy-bank object was downloaded from

https://www.thingiverse.com/

Sparschwein, Piggy Bank

by Schichtwerkstatt, published Mar 31, 2017

i used this online utility here to convert it to ASCII STL

http://www.greentoken.de/onlineconv/

License

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// by mCasual/Jacques

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