Attached is a little stl-to-vtk conversion tool. From the command line, it is just './convert file.stl', where 'file.stl' can be whatever you want. It should produce a vtk file called 'file.vtk'. Limit of 1e6 facets/vertices in the STL file.
Best regards,
Chris
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ckloss | Fri, 04/19/2013 - 15:18
Hi Chris,
Hi Chris,
thanks - looks very cool and works very nicely! One question: what does it do if the STL is an open shell?
Thanks, cheers,
Christoph
cstoltz | Fri, 04/19/2013 - 18:55
Hi Christoph,
Hi Christoph,
Shouldn't matter (unless of course I screwed up in the code :) ). I tried to make it just a straight conversion of the triangular facets from the stl file into a vtk file. If you (or anyone else) has some cases that fail, please let me know.
I pulled the vtk format that I used from something found via google, which doesn't directly match the format used for LIGGGHTS (hence the first problem with importing). I tried changing it a bit to match the format LIGGGHTS seems to be requesting, but wasn't able to quickly get it working properly. I'll try it again later when I have some time.
Best Regards,
Chris
AGl | Mon, 04/22/2013 - 07:48
Again GMSH
Just one more suggestion to convert stl into vtk using gmsh:
gmsh -2 file.stl -o file.vtk
tdl | Mon, 04/22/2013 - 11:18
Thanks
Thanks for your suggestion, with the program you suggested I
could convert the STL files to VTK legacy ascii unstructured grid.
Thanks again,
Alessandro