{"id":897,"date":"2019-05-02T01:44:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T06:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/?p=897"},"modified":"2019-05-02T01:49:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T06:49:49","slug":"converting-ply-to-stl-in-meshlab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/converting-ply-to-stl-in-meshlab\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting PLY to STL in Meshlab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meshlab can do this, if you don&#8217;t have access to a linux machine and use  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>ctmconv red-rocks-smrf-only-delaunay.ply red-rocks-smrf-only-delaunay.ply  <\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1622\" height=\"1436\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-4.png?fit=625%2C554\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-4.png 1622w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-4-300x266.png 300w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-4-768x680.png 768w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-4-1024x907.png 1024w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-4-624x552.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1622px) 100vw, 1622px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meshlab seems great, may even be as useful as Blender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Windows 10, the default viewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1188\" height=\"926\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-5.png?fit=625%2C487\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-5.png 1188w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-5-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-5-768x599.png 768w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-5-1024x798.png 1024w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-5-624x486.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1188px) 100vw, 1188px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to use the Creality Slicer (which is based off Cura). It doesn&#8217;t quite fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1619\" height=\"1439\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-6.png?fit=625%2C555\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-6.png 1619w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-6-300x267.png 300w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-6-768x683.png 768w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-6-1024x910.png 1024w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-6-624x555.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1619px) 100vw, 1619px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This seems reasonable to print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1058\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-7.png?fit=625%2C561\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-7.png 1058w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-7-300x269.png 300w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-7-768x690.png 768w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-7-1024x919.png 1024w, https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image-7-624x560.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1058px) 100vw, 1058px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Will fire up the printer and see!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"blob:http:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/9377e783-8c34-4fe8-a0f8-7ae8aa9d53a8\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meshlab can do this, if you don&#8217;t have access to a linux machine and use ctmconv red-rocks-smrf-only-delaunay.ply red-rocks-smrf-only-delaunay.ply Meshlab seems great, may even be as useful as Blender. On Windows 10, the default viewer. I&#8217;m going to use the Creality Slicer (which is based off Cura). It doesn&#8217;t quite fit. This seems reasonable to print. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/converting-ply-to-stl-in-meshlab\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Converting PLY to STL in Meshlab<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}