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brankolo
03-03-2005, 10:38 AM
Hi, i begin to model with modo, and my friend who is a designer ask me to convert/export a modo file into STL, so i think it would be done with LW but not, but i find a script on www.vertexmonkey.com (http://www.vertexmonkey.com) in I/O File Scripts, written in perl by Dion Burgoyne, so i download it
and put it into modo.exe directory. Then i bind my CTRL+ALT+S to @exportSTL.pl

when i press my combo (CTRL+ALT+S) to export my model to .stl modo going to error with
a line of script (39):

From Event Log:
Scripts || Error || Search pattern not terminated at (eval 1) line 39.
Commands || Error || script.implicit failed

the line 39 of Perl file is:
my @c = lxq("query layerservice vert.pos ? $vertlist[2]");

I think i mistake something, but i try also with Headphones.lwo model, and i try to frozen it with Lightwave cause i dont know how to do this with modo, and then re-import the model .lwo in modo, but the error is the same, then i read that i've to convert my model to triangles before exporting, but i dont know how to do that.. :(

i'm really newbie of 3d modeling and export/import 3d files too
so if anyone can help me, i'm very confused... :shrug:

i only want to export a .lwo file to .stl for a prototype machine.
how can i do with modo application?

thank you..

brankojr
noiseboy
03-03-2005, 06:21 PM
If you have Lightwave then why not use Sean Hyde Moyer's STL export Lscript. I too have problems with the Modo STL script but I'm sure that Dion will emerge after his lunch with a solution.
brankolo
03-03-2005, 07:31 PM
really thx noiseboy!
i find that script and i converted the .lwo model,
now i can try to send that to the prototype machine's experts
and then they will say me if that will be ok..

i hope Dion will fix the stl export script for modo! :)

bye, thx again.. :)
Dion Burgoyne
03-03-2005, 07:51 PM
I was hoping that you could cut and paste the entire script into a window here, internally we believe that it's getting corrupted somehow invalid endlines etc... As the script compiles and runs on every system that we have here...

One item of note, when working on the MAC, you MUST put the file extension after the name of the file, if not the Mac may become unstable. Sneaky little bug...

so save all files as

filename.STL

I should have another version of the script soon
noiseboy
03-03-2005, 09:16 PM
what Dion said, plus you must remove anything like 2 vertex polys as well as triple the quad polys to get the save dialog to come up ( in my testing anyway)
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