Access data of a mesh

[Dimis]

Hi all,

I've created a piece of code for loading and displaying a mesh (STL model).
I'd like to ask you if there is any way to access the data in the STL file, for example to extract vertices and normals.

Thank you in advance.

[Pablo J. Rogina]

@Dimis just in case, this forum has "search" capability enabled :-)
Maybe this post can help you.

[Dimis]

@Pablo-J.-Rogina Of course I've searched before I ask ;)
You quote my post, but I don't understand why. Maybe I wasn't clear in what I'm trying to do.

Apart from loading the STL model and displaying the object I'm looking for any way to access the data in the STL file of the model and store these in a list say or vectors.

Hope this is clearer!

[Pablo J. Rogina]

@Dimis said in Access data of a mesh:

You quote my post, but I don't understand why

Because I jumped out to reply without even looking at the fact you were the same person... my bad, my apologies.

[Dimis]

@Pablo-J.-Rogina hahaha, no prob!

[gde23]

You could take a look at opencascade.
It supports many 3d-model / CAD file types including stl files.