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Old   November 26, 2008, 12:20
Default Command line tool for finding the bounding box of an STL file
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Hi does any one know of a command line tool in OpenFOAM or elsewhere that can print out the bounding box of an STL file's objects ?

I need to scale and offset an STL file that is input
from a web based interface prior to creating a mesh with snappyHexMesh.

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Old   November 26, 2008, 13:08
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I can not provide you with a command line tool, but such a task should easily be managable with vtk, www.vtk.org. It provides all you need.
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Old   November 26, 2008, 14:11
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If the STL is ascii, do it yourself! STL format is really trivial...
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Old   November 26, 2008, 14:27
Default Hi, you can use admesh tool
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Hi,

you can use admesh tool to find out the bounding box of an STL file's object. It's a nice opensource code that you can download from the web. It is also really useful for a lot of other things like holes corrections, face normal reversing...

I think it's worth trying.. let me know :-)!

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Old   November 26, 2008, 15:36
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Load it with paraview and check the statics.
It tells you the bounding box dimensions and the offset respect to the wcs!
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Old   November 26, 2008, 16:47
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Thanks for all the replies.
The admesh utility seems to do the job for me as I need a non-interactive solution for a web based interface and I have binary STL files.
However I may need to move to using ASCII files as I was going to try using the new snappyHexMesh tool and the binary STL files generated by Blender do not work with it correctly.
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Old   November 27, 2008, 03:20
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You could also use the surfaceCheck utility and parse its output?
It provides not only bounding box info, but also list how many different solid groups there are.
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checkMesh | grep -i 'bounding box'
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type: surfaceCheck yourFigure.vtk | grep -i 'bounding box'
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