[Paraview] [off-toppic] binary stl output of paraview

[Michael Jackson]

The STL File format can be either ASCII or Binary. ParaView is exporting a binary file. ParaView _may_ offer the option to write out an ASCII file. Looks like Ghex software can only read an ASCII STL file.

Mike Jackson

On Nov 20, 2014, at 5:51 AM, ehsan saei <ehsan.saei at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I have a question about stl output of paraview. 
> I try to use paraview for designing some structures and and then I export those structures with stl (binary) format. but when I try to read the file using Ghex software of ubuntu except from the first line the rest of file looks like this:
> 
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> 
> Do you have any suggestion?
> I do apologize if this question is not allowed in this mail-list.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Ehsan
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